thiari

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

Hinde (1904) records thiarri as an equivalent of English rhinoceros bird in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3.

Noun

thiari class 9/10 (plural thiari)

  1. tickbird, oxpecker, especially red-billed oxpecker[2] (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “thiari” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 506. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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