ruai

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See also: ruaí

French

Verb

ruai

  1. first-person singular past historic of ruer

Kikuyu

ruai
ruai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cf. Maasai eluaai (“whistling thorn”).

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.

Noun

ruai class 9/10 (plural ruai)

  1. whistling thorn (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., syn. Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.[2])

See also

References

  1. ^ Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 61. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 19 August 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
  2. ^ “ruai” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 407. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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