Soomaali
Af soomaali
[wax ka badal]Magac
[wax ka badal]Soomaali
Etymology
[wax ka badal]- (a) soo (go ahead) + maal (extract milk / work) = hospitable with milk / nomad
- (b) soof (herd) + maal = traditional rural herder
- (c) sac (cow / meat) + maal (lifestyle) = cattle pastoralism / meat eater
- (d) sooc (differentiator) + maal = hints at medieval ethnoreligious upheaval
- (e) sama + maal / sama (good) + leh (have) = Samaale => Soomaali
- (f) soo (before) + maal (ranching) = ancient peasant ; earliest indigenous / earliest native pastoralist
- (g) ta shemaw = semitized (W) to (L) to shemal => shomaal => soomaal
Tarjumaad
[wax ka badal]- Ingiriis: Somali,