Talk:Ebola River/Archive 1
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The etymology of the word ebola is an open question. A correct etymological construction should have a verified syntax showing how the word was constructed; and a validated semantics demonstrating what the word means. The Ngbandi language is a member of the Niger-Congo family of African languages; another member of that family is the Igbo language. The word ebola in the Igbo language would not specifically be found in a dictionary. However, ebola would be a correct grammatical construction in that language.
There are three elements in the construction of the word ebola or more accurately egbola (in Igbo the vowel in gbo sounds like the vowel in the English born): (1) e, (2) gbo, (3) la. Firstly, gbo means to vomit, to throw up [1]; secondly egbo would mean they vomit [2]; thirdly egbola would mean they vomited [2]. Therefore, the verification of the syntax of the word has been demonstrated; the validation of the semantics follows from the well-known symptoms that can result from ebola virus infection.