hiti

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See also: hīti

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hiti, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hiti m (genitive singular hita, uncountable)

  1. heat, warmth
  2. fever
  3. (meteorology) temperature

Declension

Declension of hiti (singular only)
m1s singular
indefinite definite
nominative hiti hitin
accusative hita hitan
dative hita hitanum
genitive hita hitans

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hiti.

Pronunciation

Noun

hiti m (genitive singular hita, nominative plural hitar)

  1. heat
  2. fever
  3. (meteorology) temperature

Declension

declension of hiti
m-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hiti hitinn hitar hitarnir
accusative hita hitann hita hitana
dative hita hitanum hitum hitunum
genitive hita hitans hita hitanna

Derived terms

Related terms

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records hiti as an equivalent of English hyæna in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbiti and Swahili fisi together with pisi as its equivalents.

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

hiti class 9/10 (plural hiti)

  1. hyena, especially spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Kingdon, Jonathan (1977). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part A (Carnivores), p. 260. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
  • “hiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Old Norse

Etymology

From or related to Proto-Germanic *haitį̄. See also heitr (“hot”).

Noun

hiti m

  1. heat

Declension

  Declension of hiti (weak an-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hiti hitinn hitar hitarnir
accusative hita hitann hita hitana
dative hita hitanum hitum hitunum
genitive hita hitans hita hitanna

Descendants

  • Icelandic: hiti m
  • Faroese: hiti m
  • Norwegian: hete m
  • Jamtish: hata m (from the oblique)
  • Old Swedish: hiti, hete m
    • ⇒ Old Swedish: hita (from the oblique)
    • Swedish: (obsolete) hete m, hette m
  • Danish: hede c

References

  • “hiti”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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