kua
HawaiianEdit
KikuyuEdit
EtymologyEdit
Hinde (1904) records kukua (or kuite) as equivalents of English die in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kugua as its equivalent.[1]
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
kua (infinitive gũkua)
AntonymsEdit
- (to die): gũtũũra
Derived termsEdit
(Proverbs)
Related termsEdit
(Nouns)
(Adjectives)
See alsoEdit
- (to break into pieces): gwatũka
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, p. 49.
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
kua
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse kúga. Akin to English cow.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
kua (present tense kuar, past tense kua, past participle kua, passive infinitive kuast, present participle kuande, imperative ku/kua)
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
kua f
ReferencesEdit
- “kua” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.