tautau
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Kanuri tàutáu (“spider”).
Noun
tautàu m
- long-legged spider
- A skin rash thought to be caused by drinking water in which a spider has died.
References
- Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.