thiya
Kikuyu
thiya (Sylvicapra grimmia)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðìːjá/
- 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)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, 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.[2]
Noun
thiya class 9/10 (plural thiya)
- duiker (bush duiker or common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia)[3], etc.)
See also
- thwara
References
- “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
Verb
-thiya?
- to loathe, to hate
Inflection
This verb needs an inflection-table template.