-ega

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ega"

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Suffix

-ega (adjectival)

  1. augmentative suffix
    ‎varma (“warm”) + ‎-ega → ‎varmega (“hot”)

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records -wēga as an equivalent of English good in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

Adjective

-ega

  1. good
    Antonym: -ũru

Inflection

agreement of -ega
Singular Plural
Class 1, Class 2 mwega ega
Class 3, Class 4 mwega mĩega
Class 5, Class 6 rĩega mega
Class 7, Class 8 kĩega njega
Class 9, Class 10 njega njega
Class 11, Class 10 rũega njega
Class 12, Class 13 kega twega
Class 14, Class 6 mwega mega
Class 15, Class 6 kwega mega
Class 16 hega -

Derived terms

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References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “-ega” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 85. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Spanish

Suffix

-ega f (noun-forming suffix, plural -egas)

  1. female equivalent of -ego

Derived terms

Category Spanish terms suffixed with -ega not found

Related terms

Suffix

-ega f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)

  1. feminine singular of -ego

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