`zebra'

[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

Since the derivation of 'zebra' ultimately from Amharic seems to have
gained some popularity here recently (I apologise if I've not been
following the discussion attentively; I cannot exclude that everyone
mentioning it was in fact rejecting it), I might ask knowledgable readers
to point me to an Amharic dictionary *with* /zebra/, /zäbra/, or /ze:bra/
in it. In exchange I could offer to name some *without* it.
For the alleged "Congolese" source, I can only throw in that some oblique
sources accessible to me narrow this down to an unnamed language "from
Angola", one source giving the language name of /Bunda/. However, I've been
unable to locate this language so far, neither on the map, nor in one of
the language lists for Bantu lgs. available to me. I suspect that this lg.,
if it exists, may be known by some alternative name to specialists. Maybe
someone knows more about this.

St.G.

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