ngi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ngi"

Japanese

Romanization

ngi

Rōmaji transcription of き゚
Rōmaji transcription of キ゚

Khasi

Pronoun

ngi

first person plural personal pronoun: we, us
Ngin ïarap ïa phi. ― We will help you.

Ka Rin ka la ai ka kot ïa ngi. ― Rin gave us a book.

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ingi and ingishi as equivalents of English fly in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba ingi, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba inji, and Swahili inzi (pl. mainzi) as their equivalents.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ᵑɡì(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũri, ngo, and so on.

(Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

Noun

ngi class 9/10 (plural ngi)

fly (insect)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.

“ngi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *ŋipon (“tooth”), from Proto-Austronesian *ŋipen (“tooth”). Cognate with Pohnpeian ngih.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈŋi/

Noun

ngi

tooth

Inflection

Possessive forms of *ngi* (inalienable possession, -n/long vowel stem)
singular possessor	first person	ngihioa
	second person	ngihmwen
	third person	ngihn
dual possessors	first person inclusive	ngihsa
	first person exclusive	ngihma
	second person	ngihmwa
	third person	ngihra
plural possessors	first person inclusive	ngihsai
	first person exclusive	ngihmai
	second person	ngihmwai
	third person	ngihrai
remote plural possessors	first person inclusive	ngihs
	first person exclusive	ngihmi
	second person	ngihmwi
	third person	ngihr
construct form		ngihn

Derived terms

ngihn jeri (“baby teeth”)

Woleaian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈŋi/

Noun

ngi

tooth

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[yy1981-2] 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.

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