coka
Ainu edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of ciokay.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
coka (Kana spelling チョカ)
- (Saru dialect) (exclusive) we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
See also edit
Ainu personal pronouns
| person | isolated form | affix form | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | objective | |||
| first | singular | kuani, kani1 | ku=, k=1 (before vowels) | en= |
| exclusive plural | ciokay, coka1, ciutari | ci=, c=1 =as | un= | |
| inclusive plural | anokay, aoka1, anutari | a=, =an | i= | |
| second | singular | eani | e= | |
| plural | eciokay, ecioka1, eciutari | eci= | ||
| singular (polite) | anokay, aoka1 | a=, =an | i= | |
| plural (polite) | anokay, aoka1, anutari | |||
| third | singular | sinuma, anihi | ∅= | |
| plural | okay, oka1 | |||
| indefinite | singular | asinuma | a=, =an | i= |
| plural | anokay, aoka1, anutari | |||
| 1. Saru dialect | ||||
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records kushoka as an equivalent of English return in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gujoka as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
coka (infinitive gũcoka)
Derived terms edit
(Verbs)
(Names)
- Njoki f
(Proverbs)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “coka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.