Xamob
This river south of Keetmanshoop, which flows the Grootfish River from the east at 27 ° 13, occurs from early travel reports, and has been recorded numerous times with start consonant as G-, K, KH, Ch- and X, Everyone to represent the sound value of the Greek Chi as presented today in Nama in Xami and Xams for 'Lion'. The spelling points run parallel to early records of the word in Old Cape (Hott 369-370). The meaning is given early, consistently translated as Leue River, mostly recorded in German as lowenfluss, the form that the inland name has supposed and accepted on the Surveyor General's Card 1972. About the member Cham and his variants there is no uncertainty, it is 'lion', but over the exit, there is uncertainty. Gordon, and at a time Brink-Hop, has an audience, so it can joinǃ A-B = River. We believe that the pronunciation -B also is so dominant that it should apply to the natural here. Compare the closing paragraph at Nossob where we are trying to explain it as a river-nominant form, with exit -b that signaled rivers as outstretched object.
