enja
Kalo Finnish RomaniEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Greek εννιά (enniá), from Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa), from Proto-Hellenic *ennéwə, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. Cognates include Hindi नौ (nau).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
enja
KikuyuEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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]
VerbEdit
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Etymology 2Edit
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]
VerbEdit
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Derived termsEdit
(Nouns)
- mwenji class 1
(Proverbs)
Related termsEdit
(Nouns)
- rwenji class 11
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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).