endia

Kikuyu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛⁿdia/

Verb

endia (infinitives kũendia or kwendia

  1. to sell
    Kanua kendagia kĩongo. - A mouth sells a head.

Antonyms

References

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 5253. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Old Frisian

Verb

endia

  1. to finish

Descendants

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