thiĩ
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See also: thii
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records kuthie as an equivalent of English go in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuthi as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]thiĩ (infinitive gũthiĩ)
Derived terms
[edit](Nouns)
- mũthii class 1
- thiũrũra class 9
- mũthiũrũrũko class 3
(Verbs)
(Phrases)
(Proverbs)
- gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke
- gũthiĩ kuonagia mũndũ njĩra
- hiti ciathiĩ mbwe ciegangara
- ngatia ciathiĩ hiti cĩeragara
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 99, 238.