giria

See also: girią and gíria

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣiɾia/

Verb

giria (infinitive kũgiria)

  1. to prevent
    Gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke.[1][2] - To go does not prevent a person from returning.

References

  1. ↑ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs, p. 25.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (girià) IPA(key): [ɡʲɪˈrʲɛ]
  • (gìria) IPA(key): [ˈɡʲɪrʲɛ]

Noun

girià f (plural gìrios) stress pattern 2[2]

  1. primeval forest
    žalia giria - a green forest
    girios paukštis[2] - a wild bird
  2. (obsolete) wilderness
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • (diminutive) giraitė, girelė, giružė

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʲɪrʲɛ]

Verb

gìria

  1. third-person singular present tense of girti.
  2. third-person plural present tense of girti.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177-178.
  2. 1 2 “giria” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
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