taha

Tswana [Term?]

taha (plural tahas)

1. (obsolete) The yellow-crowned bishop, Euplectes afer, especially the southern subspecies taha.
2. (obsolete) The village weaver, Ploceus cucullatus.

• Atha, HAAT, thaa

taha

1. to end

taha

1. second person; you (singular)

• ta

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”).

taha

1. foot

• 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)

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]

• IPA^(key): /taha/

taha (infinitive gũtaha)

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

(Nouns)

• ndahi class 9/10
• gatahi class 12
• gĩtahi class 7

(Proverbs)

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

• (to seize): kũguĩma, kũgwata, gũtega

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

• hata

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.

taha

1. one

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

tāha f

1. jackdaw

• German Dohle
• → Italian: taccola

From Spanish atajar "to block" and Portuguese talhar "to cut".

taha

1. to prohibit

taha

1. frigatebird

From Proto-Polynesian *tasi, 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.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ha/

taha

1. one