-raya
See also: raya
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records -raiya as an equivalent of English high in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
Adjective
edit-raya
Inflection
editagreement of -raya
Singular | Plural | |
---|---|---|
Class 1, Class 2 | mũraya | araya |
Class 3, Class 4 | mũraya | mĩraya |
Class 5, Class 6 | iraya | maraya |
Class 7, Class 8 | kĩraya | ndaya |
Class 9, Class 10 | ndaya | ndaya |
Class 11, Class 10 | rũraya | ndaya |
Class 12, Class 13 | karaya | tũraya |
Class 14, Class 6 | mũraya | maraya |
Class 15, Class 6 | kũraya | maraya |
Class 16 | haraya | - |
Derived terms
edit(Proverbs)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- ũraya class 14
References
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “-raya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 374. Oxford: Clarendon Press.