huria

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /huɾia/

Verb

huria (infinitive kũhuria)

to snatch

Etymology 2

Cf. kũhuria.[1]

Hinde (1904) records hurria as an equivalent of English rhinoceros in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hùɾiǎ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[3]

Noun

huria class 9/10 (plural huria)

rhinoceros

References

“huria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 171. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hūzijō (“hire”).

Noun

hūria f

hire, rent

Derived terms

Related terms

hūra

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