hiti
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse hiti, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhiːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -iːtɪ
- Homophone: hitið
Noun
hiti m (genitive singular hita, uncountable)
- heat, warmth
- fever
- (meteorology) temperature
Declension
| Declension of hiti (singular only) | ||
|---|---|---|
| m1s | singular | |
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hiti | hitin |
| accusative | hita | hitan |
| dative | hita | hitanum |
| genitive | hita | hitans |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hiti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɪːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɪːtɪ
Noun
hiti m (genitive singular hita, nominative plural hitar)
- heat
- fever
- (meteorology) temperature
Declension
declension of hiti
| m-w1 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | hiti | hitinn | hitar | hitarnir |
| accusative | hita | hitann | hita | hitana |
| dative | hita | hitanum | hitum | hitunum |
| genitive | hita | hitans | hita | hitanna |
Derived terms
- hitavella
- jarðhiti
- sótthiti
Related terms
- heitur
- hita
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records hiti as an equivalent of English hyæna in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbiti and Swahili fisi together with pisi as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hìtí/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[3]
Noun
hiti class 9/10 (plural hiti)
- hyena, especially spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)[4]
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- gũthekererwo nĩ andũ ti kũrĩrĩrwo nĩ hiti
- hiti ciathiĩ mbwe ciegangara
- mĩcingũ ĩĩrĩ yuunaga hiti kũgũrũ
- mũragwo tũhũ ndaregagwo nĩ hiti
- ngatia ciathiĩ hiti cĩeragara
- tũtikũhe hiti kerĩ
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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 (1977). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part A (Carnivores), p. 260. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
- “hiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Old Norse
Noun
hiti m
- heat
Descendants
- Danish: hede c
- Faroese: hiti m
- Icelandic: hiti m
- Norwegian: hete m
- Swedish: hete m, hette m (both obsolete and replaced by hetta c/f)
References
- hiti in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press