oya

キクユ語

語源

Hinde (1904) は英語 pick (up) にあたるキクユ語「ジョゴウィニ方言」(Jogowini dialect)の訳語として kuoiya を記録している[1]

発音(?)

動詞

oya(不定形: kuoya

  1. 拾う[2]
  2. 持ち上げる

ことわざ

語義1:

語義2:

脚注

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4647. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 236.
  3. Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 53. London: Macmillan.
  4. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, pp. 300301. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).