thiya
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Kikuyu
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Pronunciation
[edit]- This i is pronounced long.[1]
- 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.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]thiya class 9/10 (plural thiya)
- duiker (bush duiker or common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia),[3] etc.)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “thiya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 519. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
- ^ Kingdon, Jonathan (1982). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part C (Bovids), p. 318. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. →ISBN
Xhosa
[edit]Verb
[edit]-thîya
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.