taha
English
Etymology
Tswana [Term?]
Noun
taha (plural tahas)
- (obsolete) The yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer, especially the southern subspecies taha.
- (obsolete) The village weaver, Ploceus cucullatus.
Chickasaw
Esmeralda
Etymology
Seler suggested that this term might be cognate or related to Pumé ta (“foot”), but this is now considered unlikely. Compare Esmeralda ta- (“classifying prefix for long objects”).
References
- Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Contribuciones a las lenguas y culturas de los Andes (2005), page 241: De la lista de semejanzas léxicas, por lo general poco convincentes, que fueron notadas por Jijón y Caamaño ([1941] 1998: 483), podríamos agregar esmeraldeño taha 'pié'[.]
- Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes: taha (citing Seler 1902, Jijón y Caamaño 1941)
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kutaha maii as the equivalent of English draw water in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kutapa maanzi as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taha/
Derived terms
(Nouns)
(Proverbs)
- mũrũngũru wa njamba ũtahaga na ime
- mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Niuean
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Cardinal : taha | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, from Proto-Oceanic, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ. Akin to Old English dāƿe, English daw.
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Spanish atajar "to block" and Portuguese talhar "to cut".
Rapa Nui
Tongan
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Cardinal : taha | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.