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enja

Kalo Finnish Romani

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Kalo Finnish Romani numbers (edit)
90
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    Cardinal: enja
    Ordinal: enjato

Etymology

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From Greek εννιά (enniá), from Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa), from Proto-Hellenic *ennéwə, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Hindi नौ (nau).

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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enja

  1. nine

Kikuyu

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FWOTD – 22 April 2020

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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enja (infinitive kwenja)

  1. to dig[2]
    kwenja marima ― to dig holes

Etymology 2

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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

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enja (infinitive kwenja)

  1. to shave[2]
    kwenja nderu ― to shave beards
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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 32, 228.
  3. ^ 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).
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