ruai

See also: ruaí

French

Verb

ruai

  1. first-person singular past historic of ruer

Kikuyu
ruai
ruai

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cf. Maasai eluaai (“whistling thorn”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾùàì/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.

Noun

ruai class 9/10 (plural ruai)

  1. whistling thorn (Vachellia drepanolobium, syn. Acacia drepanolobium[2])

See also

References
  1. Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 61. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 19 August 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
  2. “ruai” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 407. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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