taha

See also: Taha and tàhʻa

English

Noun

taha (plural tahas)

  1. The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).

References

  • taha in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Chickasaw

Verb

taha

  1. to end

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”).

Noun

taha

  1. foot

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/

Verb

taha (infinitive gũtaha)

  1. to draw (water, beer, etc.)
  2. to seize (booty)

Derived terms

(Nouns)

(Proverbs)

  • mũrũngũru wa njamba ũtahaga na ime
  • mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua

See also

  • (to seize): kũgũĩma, kũgwata, gũtega

References

  1. ↑ 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).

Anagrams

Niuean

Niuean cardinal numbers
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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.

Numeral

taha

  1. (cardinal) one

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dēhǭ. Akin to Old English dāƿe, English daw.

Noun

tāha f

  1. jackdaw

Descendants

Papiamentu

Verb

taha

  1. to prohibit

Rapa Nui

Noun

taha

  1. frigatebird

Tongan

Tongan cardinal numbers
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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.

Numeral

taha

  1. (cardinal) one
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