name
Gatluak
gat-LOO-ahk
ɡætˈluːɑkListen
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Syllable breakdown
Gatluak
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Nuer (South Sudan/Ethiopia)
- Meaning
- a Nuer masculine name using the male prefix Gat or Gaat meaning son of, a foundational element of Nuer naming practice that links each name to lineage and paternal descent; among the Nuer, personal names encode kinship, clan membership, and seasonal circumstance, and many names reference the colours and characteristics of cattle because the Nuer relationship with cattle is not merely economic but cosmological — cattle mediate between the human and divine realms in Nuer religion and sacrifice
- Gender
- male
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