akrowa
noun · village; farm village
Origin
From Portuguese or Twi crom / korow + ba
A Ga speaker: from Portuguese crom (village). Zimmermann's 1858 vocabulary says it comes from Twi korow (town) and ba (little).
Sources disagree about this origin. Both views are shown above.
As recorded in 1858
akrowa, Zimmermann's vocabulary, page 13
Source and review
- Meaning from
- Zimmermann's Ga vocabulary of 1858
- English in 1874
- village
- Review
- Not yet reviewed