enja
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Kalo Finnish Romani[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Romani enia. Cognates include Hindi नौ (nau).
Pronunciation[edit]
Numeral[edit]
enja
Kikuyu[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Hinde (1904) records kuenja as an equivalent of English dig in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kuendzema and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba kuenza as its equivalents.[1]
Verb[edit]
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Etymology 2[edit]
Hinde (1904) records kuinja as an equivalent of English shave in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba gumwendza as its equivalent.[3]
Verb[edit]
enja (infinitive kwenja)
Derived terms[edit]
(Nouns)
- mwenji class 1
(Proverbs)
Related terms[edit]
(Nouns)
- rwenji class 11
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 32, 228.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 360–361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Categories:
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms derived from Byzantine Greek
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms inherited from Romani
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms derived from Romani
- Kalo Finnish Romani terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kalo Finnish Romani lemmas
- Kalo Finnish Romani numerals
- Kalo Finnish Romani cardinal numbers
- Kikuyu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kikuyu lemmas
- Kikuyu verbs
- Kikuyu terms with usage examples