giria

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See also: girią and gíria

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

Verb

giria (infinitive kũgiria)

  1. to prevent
    Gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke
    To go does not prevent a person from returning.
    [1][2]

References

  1. ^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 13.
  2. ^ Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs, p. 25.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Lithuanian

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Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.[1] Cognates include Sanskrit गिरि (girí-, mountain, hill),[1] Bulgarian гора́ (gorá, woods)[1] and Polish góra (mountain).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

girià f (plural gìrios) stress pattern 2[2]

  1. primeval forest
    žalia giria - a green forest
    girios paukštis[2] - a wild bird
  2. (obsolete) wilderness
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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

gìria

  1. third-person singular present of girti
  2. third-person plural present of girti

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 177-178.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “giria” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.