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-ega

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Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-ega (adjectival)

  1. augmentative suffix
    varma (warm) + ‎-ega → ‎varmega (hot)

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records -wēga as an equivalent of English good in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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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.

Adjective

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-ega

  1. good[2]
    Antonym: -ũru

Inflection

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “-ega” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 85. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Spanish

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Suffix

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-ega f (noun-forming suffix, plural -egas)

  1. female equivalent of -ego

Derived terms

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Category Spanish terms suffixed with -ega not found
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Suffix

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-ega f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)

  1. feminine singular of -ego

Further reading

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