-ega

See also: ega, EGA, Ega, èga, and êga

Esperanto

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈeɡa/
  • Hyphenation: e‧ga
  • Rhymes: -eɡa

Suffix

-ega (adjectival)

  1. augmentative suffix
    ‎varma (“warm”) + ‎-ega → ‎varmega (“hot”)

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records -wēga as an equivalent of English good in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛ̀ɣá/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

Adjective

-ega

  1. good[2]
    Antonym: -ũru

Inflection
agreement of -ega
Singular Plural
Class 1, Class 2 mwega ega
Class 3, Class 4 mwega mĩega
Class 5, Class 6 rĩega mega
Class 7, Class 8 kĩega njega
Class 9, Class 10 njega njega
Class 11, Class 10 rũega njega
Class 12, Class 13 kega twega
Class 14, Class 6 mwega mega
Class 15, Class 6 kwega mega
Class 16 hega -

Derived terms

(Nouns)

(Phrases)

(Proverbs)

  • gĩkũrũ kĩega no kĩratina
  • gũtirĩ nyoni njega mwere-inĩ
  • mwarĩ mwega ahĩtũkĩra thome wa ngĩa

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. “-ega” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 85. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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