kudaku
Chamba Daka
Etymology
From Hausa kūdaku, kūdàkū (“sweet potato”).[1]
Noun
kudaku
- sweet potato
References
- Roger Blench, Archaeology, Language, and the African Past →ISBN, 2006), page 230, The role of Hausa in diffusing terms for sweet potato
Fula
Etymology
From Hausa kudaku
Noun
kudaku
- sweet potato
Usage notes
- Used in Nigerian Fulfulde.?
- Used in Central-Eastern Niger Fulfulde.?
Synonyms
- dankali
- masaku
Hausa
Noun
kūdaku, kūdàkū m
- potato, sweet potato
Synonyms
- dànkalī̀ m
- lāwúr (Sokoto dialect)
Descendants
- → Chamba Daka: kudaku
- → Epie: kukuduku
- → Fula: kudaku
- → Igbo: kukundùkú (Onitsha dialect)
- → Izon: kúkúndùkú (Kolokuma dialect)
- → Kanuri: kúnduwú
- → Nupe: dùkú
- → Perema: kùdákúa
- → Southeast Ijo: kukunduku (Nembe dialect)
- → Tarok: a-kǝtǝku
- → Yoruba: kúkúndùkú
References
- James F. Schön, Dictionary of the Hausa language (1876)
- Charles Henry Robinson, Dictionary of the Hausa language, volume 1 (1913)
- Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)
- Roger Blench, Archaeology, Language, and the African Past →ISBN, 2006), page 230, The role of Hausa in diffusing terms for sweet potato
Japanese
Romanization
kudaku
- Rōmaji transcription of くだく