huria
Kikuyu edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
huria (infinitive kũhuria)
- to snatch
Etymology 2 edit
Cf. kũhuria.[1]
Hinde (1904) records hurria as an equivalent of English rhinoceros in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]
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.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
huria class 9/10 (plural huria)
References edit
- ^ “huria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 171. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Old Saxon edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hūʀiju (“hire”).
Noun edit
hūria f