thiari
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records thiarri as an equivalent of English rhinoceros bird in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3.
Noun[edit]
thiari class 9/10 (plural thiari)
- tickbird, oxpecker, especially red-billed oxpecker[2] (Buphagus erythrorhynchus)
Derived terms[edit]
(Proverbs)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “thiari” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 506. Oxford: Clarendon Press.