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koya

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See also: Kōya and køya

Fijian

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Pronoun

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koya

  1. third person singular; he, she or singular they

See also

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Fijian personal pronouns
singular dual paucal plural
1st person au keirau (exclusive)
kedaru (inclusive)
keitou (exclusive)
kedatou (inclusive)
keimami (exclusive)
keda (inclusive)
2nd person iko kemudrau kemudou kemuni
3rd person koya rau iratou ira

Japanese

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Romanization

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koya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of こや

Kapampangan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá) as per Chan-Yap (1980)[1] with an older obsolete form of the diminutive suffix[2][3] as a weak form of (kiáⁿ, káⁿ). Cognates with Tagalog kuya and Cebuano kuya.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkojə/ [ˈkoː.jə]
  • Hyphenation: ko‧ya

Noun

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kóya

  1. an elder brother
  2. a respectful title or form of address for an older man
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References

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  1. ^ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 141
  2. ^ Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum[1] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 344/366; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum[2], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
  3. ^ Medhurst, Walter Henry (1832) “Yëá 仔”, in A Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms: Containing About 12,000 Characters, (overall work in Hokkien and English), Macao: The Honorable East India Company's Press by G. J. Steyn and Brother, page 736

Rayón Zoque

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Noun

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koya

  1. tomatillo

Derived terms

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References

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  • Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 14