riika
See also: Riika
Kikuyu
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
editriika class 5 (plural mariika)
- group of the people who have been circumcised at the same time;[3] used to play a role in tying up kinship relations such as mũhĩrĩga, mbarĩ and nyũmba;[4] age group, age set
Derived terms
edit(Proverbs)
References
edit- ^ “rika” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- ^ Davison, Jean (1996) Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995[1], Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, →ISBN, page 32
- ^ Nganga, Nobuko, Nganga, Peter S. (2013) “The Kinship System and Rule for Naming Children in Kikuyu People of Kenya”, in 長崎大学教育学部社会科学論叢[2] (in Japanese), pages 25–33
Northern Sami
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Low German rike, Swedish rike, or Old Swedish rīke. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Compare Estonian riik.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editriika
Inflection
editEven a-stem, ik-ikk gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | riika | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | riikka | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | riika | riikkat | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | riikka | riikkaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | riikka | riikkaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | riikii | riikkaide | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | riikkas | riikkain | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | riikkain | riikkaiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | riikan | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Categories:
- Kikuyu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kikuyu lemmas
- Kikuyu nouns
- Kikuyu class 5 nouns
- Northern Sami terms borrowed from Low German
- Northern Sami terms derived from Low German
- Northern Sami terms borrowed from Swedish
- Northern Sami terms derived from Swedish
- Northern Sami terms borrowed from Old Swedish
- Northern Sami terms derived from Old Swedish
- Northern Sami terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Northern Sami terms with IPA pronunciation
- Northern Sami 2-syllable words
- Northern Sami lemmas
- Northern Sami nouns
- Northern Sami even nouns
- Northern Sami even a-stem nouns
- R:Álgu lacking id