Soomaali

Magac

Soomaali

Etymology

• (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

• Ingiriis: Somali,

Synonyms

• sanyar, geeljire, lamagoodle, barbar, yalaxow, Soomaali