thuya

See also: Thuya

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

thuya (plural thuyas)

1. Any member of the genus Thuya.
   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII:

     Thuya, Ara, or Sandrac-tree, is probably the Arbor vitæ of Theophrastus: it is similar in leaf to the juniper, and, besides producing the gum sandrac, the wood is invaluable [...].

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɥi.ja/, /ty.ja/

• Audio:

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Noun

thuya m (plural thuyas)

1. thuya

Further reading

• “thuya”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records thūya and sūya as equivalents of English flea in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðùːjáꜜ/

This u is pronounced long.

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as thuuya, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.

Noun

thuya class 9/10 (plural thuya)

1. flea

   Synonym: kĩroboto

See also

• ndutu, ngage