noe
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɔ̀.ɛ́ꜜ/
- 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, 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.[1]
Noun
noe class 9/10 (plural noe)
- Lima bean(s), butter bean(s), Madagascar bean(s) (Phaseolus lunatus)[2][3]
References
- 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.
- “mũnoe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 283. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Kays, Stanley J. (2011). Cultivated Vegetables of the World: A Multilingual Onomasticon, p. 165. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. →ISBN
Norwegian Nynorsk
Sardinian
Etymology
From Latin novem (compare Italian nove), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥
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