hiti
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse hiti, from Proto-Germanic *haitį̄ (“heat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhiːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -iːtɪ
- Homophone: hitið
Declension
Declension of hiti (singular only) | ||
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m1s | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | hiti | hitin |
accusative | hita | hitan |
dative | hita | hitanum |
genitive | hita | hitans |
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɪːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɪːtɪ
Declension
Derived terms
- hitavella
- jarðhiti
- sótthiti
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records hiti as an equivalent of English hyæna in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbiti and Swahili fisi together with pisi as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hìtí/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- gũthekererwo nĩ andũ ti kũrĩrĩrwo nĩ hiti
- hiti ciathiĩ mbwe ciegangara
- mĩcingũ ĩĩrĩ yuunaga hiti kũgũrũ
- mũragwo tũhũ ndaregagwo nĩ hiti
- ngatia ciathiĩ hiti cĩeragara
- tũtikũhe hiti kerĩ
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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 (1977). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part A (Carnivores), p. 260. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
- “hiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Old Norse
Descendants
References
- hiti in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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