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==Etymology== The first known person in the Western world to record this antelope was the English painter [[Samuel Daniell]], who painted it in "Boosh-wana", and recorded it as the "sassayby".<ref name=Sclater1895>{{cite book |last1=Sclater |first1=Philip Lutley |author-link= |last2=Thomas |first2=Oldfield |author-link2=Oldfield Thomas |last3=Wolf |first3=Joseph |date=January 1895 |title=The Book of Antelopes |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42162419 |volume=1 |location=London |publisher=R.H. Porter |page=86 |oclc=1236807 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.65969}}</ref><ref name=Smith1827>{{cite book |last=Cuvier |first=Georges |author-link=Georges Cuvier |translator-last1=Hamilton-Smith |translator-first1=Charles |translator-link1=Charles Hamilton Smith |date=1827 |title=Règne animal |trans-title=The animal kingdom : arranged in conformity with its organization The class Mammalia |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33264475 |editor1-last=Griffith |editor1-first=Edward |editor1-link=Edward Griffith (zoologist) |volume=4 |location=London |publisher=Geo. B. Whittaker |pages=352–354 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.45021 |oclc=1947779}}</ref> The painting of the animal was first published posthumously in 1820 by his brother. [[William Cornwallis Harris]], in his 1840 book about [[big game hunting]], was quite familiar with the species in the [[Cashan Mountains]] and [[Kurrichane]] Hills, and renders the name as "sassaybe". Sassaby had thus become the [[common name]] for this antelope in Southern Africa by the end of the 19th century. The English later recorded the [[Tswana language|Tswana]] name for the antelope as ''tsessĕbe'', by 1895 it was thought that this was the origin for the anglicised word. Other names for the antelope which were recorded by [[Frederick Selous]] around this time were ''inkweko'' in the language of the Masubians of the [[Caprivi Strip]] (related to [[Lozi language|Lozi]]), ''incolomo'' and ''incomazan'' in the [[Northern Ndebele language|isiNdebele]] of "[[Northern Ndebele people|Matebele]]", ''unchuru'' was the Sekuba name given by the Makuba of northern [[Botswana]], ''inyundo'' by the [[Makalaka]], and ''luchu'' or ''lechu'' by the [[Bushmen|Masaras]]. The antelope was recorded as called ''myanzi'' in [[isiZulu]] and the ''bastaard hartebeest'' by the [[Afrikaner]]s, indeed it looks somewhat like a cross between a [[hartebeest]] and a horse.<ref name=Sclater1895/> The new [[vernacular name]] 'common tsessebe' was invented by [[Peter Grubb (zoologist)|Peter Grubb]] in 2005 to refer to ''Damaliscus lunatus lunatus'' to distinguish it from the new Bangweulu [[taxon]].<ref name=MSW3/>
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