From aka- (class 12 diminutive prefix) + -leju (“beard”).
akaleju class 12 (plural obuleju class 14, augmentless kaleju, plural augmentless buleju)
- diminutive of omuleju (“beard”): chin
- Kaji, Shigeki (2007) A Rutooro Vocabulary[1], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 8