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coka

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See also: Čoka

Ainu

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Etymology

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Contraction of ciokay.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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coka (Kana spelling チョカ)

  1. (Saru dialect) (exclusive) we (first-person plural subject pronoun)

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Ainu personal pronouns
person isolated form affix form
nominative objective
first singular kuani, kani1 ku=, k=1 (before vowels) en=
exclusive plural ciokay, coka1, ciutari ci=, c=1 =as un=
inclusive plural anokay, aoka1, anutari a=, =an i=
second singular eani e=
plural eciokay, ecioka1, eciutari eci=
singular (polite) anokay, aoka1 a=, =an i=
plural (polite) anokay, aoka1, anutari
third singular sinuma, anihi ∅=
plural okay, oka1
indefinite singular asinuma a=, =an i=
plural anokay, aoka1, anutari

1. Saru dialect

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records kushoka as an equivalent of English return in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gujoka as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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coka (infinitive gũcoka)

  1. to go back, to return

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • “coka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.