-ega
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ega"
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Suffix edit
-ega (adjectival)
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records -wēga as an equivalent of English good in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
Adjective edit
-ega
Inflection edit
agreement of -ega
Derived terms edit
(Nouns)
- wega class 14
(Phrases)
(Proverbs)
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “-ega” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 85. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Spanish edit
Suffix edit
-ega f (noun-forming suffix, plural -egas)
- female equivalent of -ego
Derived terms edit
Category Spanish terms suffixed with -ega not found
Related terms edit
Suffix edit
-ega f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)
Further reading edit
- “-ega”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014