Kisi
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English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Kisi
- An African language of the Bantu family spoken in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
See also
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Kisi
- Alternative form of Jixi
- 1968, 1967 News Dictionary, Facts on File, →OCLC, page 57:
- The posters, put up by a delegation from the provincial town of Kisi (Chi-hsi), claimed that disloyal army troops and a mob of over 100,000 anti-Maoist workers had carried out an armed attack on 60,000 Maoists in Kisi May 14-15, killing or wounding an “unaccountable number” of them.
- 1980, T.R. Tregar, China: A Geographical Survey, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 219:
- Other large Heilungkiang mines are sited at Kisi and Shwangyashan, which produced 5-8 million and 2-3 million tons respectively in 1957¹⁹.
Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Kisi, kiz
