êman

See also: eman, Eman, emān, and emän

Rade

From Proto-Chamic *lamaːn[1] (compare Jarai rơman, Western Cham limân) related to Javanese liman plus Malay liman and leman. Might be related to êma (“five”) cf. relationship of Malay liman and lima, Jarai rơman and rơma.

Noun

êman

  1. (zoology) elephant

References
  1. Turgood, Graham (1999) Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, pages 156, 340
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