irio

irio (uncountable)

1. (Kenya) A Kenyan dish of mashed potatoes, maize, and other vegetables.
   • 2010, Barbara Sheen, Foods of Kenya, page 21:

     There are almost as many ways to prepare irio as there are Kenyan cooks. Irio almost always starts with potatoes, corn, and beans, but then Kenyan cooks add any number of other ingredients to the dish. Spinach, fried onions, vegetables, […]

From kũrĩa (“to eat”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ìɾiɔ̌ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.^[2]

irio class 8^[1]

1. food

• irio hĩu itiumaga mbũri

• rĩgu

Unknown.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ri.oː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ri.o/,

īriō m or f (genitive īriōnis); third declension

1. a siliquose plant, probably a member of the genera Barbarea (wintercress or yellow rocket) or Sisymbrium (comprising several species of mustard and rocket)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:irio.

Third-declension noun.

• (siliquose plant of Barbarea or Sisymbrium): erysimon, sisymbrium, vela

• “īrĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• īrĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 856/3.
• “Īriō” on page 966/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

irio

1. first-person singular present indicative of iriar