tinia

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kutinnia as an equivalent of English cut in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

Verb

tinia (infinitive gũtinia)

  1. to sever, to cut (off)

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 16–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 68.

Portuguese

Verb

tinia

  1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tinir