iria

See also: Iria, iría, irĩa, and ĩrĩa

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Hinde (1904) records īrria as an equivalent of English milk in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba īya as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìɾìjáꜜ/
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)

Noun

iria class 5 (plural maria)

  1. milk
    iria rĩa mwĩtha - fresh milk
Derived terms

(Nouns)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *ìdìbà.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìɾì(j)à(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

iria class 5 (plural maria)

  1. place where water is collected
    1. lake, pond
    2. sea
See also

References

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4041. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  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, 75123.
  • iria1”, "iria" in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 380381. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

iria

  1. first-person singular (eu) conditional of ir
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) conditional of ir
  3. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of iriar
  4. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of iriar
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