enja
Kalo Finnish Romani edit
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| Cardinal: enja Ordinal: enjato | ||
Etymology edit
Inherited from Romani enia. Cognates include Hindi नौ (nau).
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
enja
Kikuyu edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Hinde (1904) records kuenja as an equivalent of English dig in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kuendzema and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kuenza as its equivalents.[1]
Verb edit
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Etymology 2 edit
Hinde (1904) records kuinja as an equivalent of English shave in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba gumwendza as its equivalent.[3]
Verb edit
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Derived terms edit
(Nouns)
- mwenji class 1
(Proverbs)
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- rwenji class 11
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 32, 228.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 360–361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).