agumetaku

Ewe

Etymology

From agu (“earth, ground”) +‎ me (“inside”) +‎ ta (“to prune”) +‎ ku (“to take out”), literally “[it is] pruned [and] taken out [from] inside the ground”, signifying the harvesting of these root vegetables by digging them up from the soil.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /à.ɡù.mè.tá.kù/, [à.ɡù.mè.t̪á.kù]

Noun

àgùmètákù (definite singular àgùmètákù lá or àgùmètákùà, plural àgùmètákùwó, definite plural àgùmètákùàwó)

leek
ginger
Synonym: ŋkrawusa

References

Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1905), “agumetaku”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language]‎^[1] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section I, page 205
Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1906), “agumetaku”, in Wörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language]‎^[2] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section II, page 100