ajalo
Also written ajalo (or ajɔtɔ)
noun · yaws, a lingering infectious skin disease
ye adšalo, to have yaws; Zimmermann notes some parents deliberately exposed children, believing it protected them later
Origin
From Twi (Otyi) gyatọ
Zimmermann gives the variant adšọtọ as from Otyi gyatọ
As recorded in 1858
adšalo (or adšọtọ), Zimmermann's vocabulary, page 6
Source and review
Zimmermann's Ga vocabulary, 1858. Not yet reviewed.