huria
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /huɾia/
Verb
huria (infinitive kũhuria)
- to snatch
Etymology 2
Cf. kũhuria.[1]
Hinde (1904) records hurria as an equivalent of English rhinoceros in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hùɾiǎ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[3]
Noun
huria class 9/10 (plural huria)
- rhinoceros
References
- “huria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 171. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hūzijō (“hire”).
Noun
hūria f
- hire, rent
Derived terms
- hūrland
- hūrroggo
- hūrothe
Related terms
- hūra