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Subject: | Re: DONGA |
From: | Stephen Greenfield & Kit Hansen <> |
Date: | Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:02:54 -0600 |
At 10:17 PM 3/31/98 +0930, Trevor Hampel wrote: >donga: 1. a shallow gully or dried out watercourse > >The Shorter Oxford Dictionary: >donga: a ravine or watercourse with steep sides (South Africa: Bantu) It's used in Kenya to refer to seasonally dry riverbeds. It was one of the few words I knew in Swahili where I had to say I didn't know an English equivalent. But it's not in the Swahili dictionary I have... Interesting that it got to Australia. I'll be in the state of Arizona next week (where such rivers are common)... I'll be curious to see what the local term is. Stephen Greenfield Minneapolis USA |
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