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Kikuyu

thiya (Sylvicapra grimmia)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ðìːjá/

This i is pronounced long.^[1]

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.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.^[2]

Noun

thiya class 9/10 (plural thiya)

duiker (bush duiker or common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia),^[3] etc.)

See also

thwara

References

^ “thiya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 519. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
^ Kingdon, Jonathan (1982). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part C (Bovids), p. 318. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN

Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. →ISBN

Xhosa

Verb

-thîya

to loathe, to hate

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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