thuya
See also: Thuya
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name.
Noun
editthuya (plural thuyas)
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editthuya m (plural thuyas)
Further reading
edit- “thuya”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records thūya and sūya as equivalents of English flea in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- This u is pronounced long.[2]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as thuuya, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[3]
Noun
editthuya class 9/10 (plural thuya)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “thuya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 533. 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.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.
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