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Gokana
Noun
nĩ
- elephant
References
Kaingang
Pronunciation
Noun
nĩ
- meat
Verb
nĩ
- to live (somewhere)
- to be (somewhere)
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
Particle
nĩ
- (copula) is
- gũota mwaki nĩ kũhuria - no gain without pain (lit. to warm oneself is to stoke the fire)
- (in passive construction) by
- Mwaki wa Ngai ũraaragio nĩ igoto. - God's fire is kept through the night by a dried banana bark.
- Njĩrirũo nĩ kanyoni gakwa. - I was told by my birdlet.
- Thegere igĩrĩ itiremagwo nĩ mwatũ. - Two honey badgers are not defeated by a beehive.
References
- ^ “nĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 282. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs. London: Macmillan.