köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀆𑀮𑀼𑀕 (āluga), from Sanskrit आलुक (āluka, “elephant foot yam”). Doublet of आलु (ālu) and आलुक (āluk). The word began to be used in the sense "potato" after the importation of potatoes to South Asia from the Americas by Europeans, displacing cultivation of the similar elephant foot yam.
A root vegetable of the Colocasia genus, including the yam, taro etc. · Some kind of plant in the Arum family, of the genus Alocasia, Caladium, Colocasia etc.
any of the various species of wild and cultivated yam in the family Dioscorea · tuber; (especially) yam tuber · bulb; (especially) onion or garlic bulb
eş: isu姕Kabbausu姕, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo
köken: Cognate with Igala úchu, Ede Idaca icu, proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruba *u-cu, Proto-Edekiri *u-cu, ultimately from Proto-Yoruboid *ú-cu Possible cognates include Igbo ji, Nupe eci, Arigidi iʃɛ̃, Igasi Arigidi ìti, Uro/Aje Arigidi ìsi, Proto-Plateau *ì-tsit, Igede iju, Idoma ihi, Proto-Gbe *-te