-ega
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ega (adjectival)
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records -wēga as an equivalent of English good in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- 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.
Adjective
-ega
Inflection
agreement of -ega
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- wega class 14
(Phrases)
(Proverbs)
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “-ega” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 85. Oxford: Clarendon Press.