thiya

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Kikuyu

thiya (Sylvicapra grimmia)

Pronunciation

This i is pronounced long.
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

thiya class 9/10 (plural thiya)

  1. duiker (bush duiker or common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), etc.)

See also

References

  1. ^ “thiya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 519. 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. ^ Kingdon, Jonathan (1982). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part C (Bovids), p. 318. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN

Xhosa

Verb

-thîya

  1. to loathe, to hate

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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