thara

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Kikuyu

thara

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

The first a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

thara class 9/10 (plural thara)

  1. Napier grass, elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum)[3]

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ “thara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Kitalyi, Aichi and David M. Miano and Sandra Mwebaze and Charles Wambugu (2005). More forage, more milk: Forage production for small-scale zero grazing systems, p. 114. RELMA Technical Handbook No. 33. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA in ICRAF) / World Agroforestry Centre. →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 32.

Old High German

Alternative forms

Adverb

thara

  1. thither (to that place)

References

  1. Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen

Tangkhul Naga

Numeral

thara

  1. ten
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