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Can this also mean root vegetables such as carrots or radishes?
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Would this include mogo? I forget the English but our language has borrowed from swahili so we call it mogo.
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I don't think so as your examples are not very common vegetables in East Africa
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Are you sure? I had multiple meals with carrots in markets of several Tanzanian towns.
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I'd be willing to bet that swahili, like english, doesn't have a separate word for root vegetables, but I also doubt there'd be any situation where you'd call something you're eating a root instead of specifically what it is. Maybe in the "Did you know potatoes are a root?" sense, or in the case that a dish is primarily root veggies.
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I'd guess "they" could point at animals too. Then it's less off to eat roots :)
Sounds like Owen and his chums from the Welsh course chowing down on parsnips. They're always eating parsnips in the Welsh course!
