oya

See also: Oya, ọ̀ya, and -’oyą

Japanese

Romanization

oya

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おや

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuoiya as an equivalent of English pick (up) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔja/

Verb

oya (infinitive kuoya)

  1. to pick[2]
    Mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ.[3]
    A falling voice is not picked up (by the speaker), but by others.
  2. to lift
    Yaarĩĩkia kuuga ũgwo ĩkĩoya magũrũ.[4]
    When he [a hyena (hiti)] had said that he started off. (lit. it just finished saying so lifted feet.)

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

(to pick):
  • thutha wa arũme nduoyagwo ruoya
(to lift):

References

  1. ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.
  3. ↑ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.
  4. ↑ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300–301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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