giria

See also: girią and gíria

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɣiɾia/

Verb

giria (infinitive kũgiria)

  1. to prevent
    Gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke
    To go does not prevent a person from returning.
    [1][2]

References
  1. Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents, p. 13.
  2. Njũrũri, Ngũmbũ (1969). Gĩkũyũ Proverbs, p. 25.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.[1] Cognates include Sanskrit गिरि (girí-, “mountain, hill”),[1] Bulgarian гора́ (gorá, “woods”)[1] and Polish góra (“mountain”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (girià) IPA(key): [ɡʲɪˈrʲɛ]
  • (gìria) IPA(key): [ˈɡʲɪrʲɛ]

Noun

girià f (plural gìrios) stress pattern 2[2]

  1. primeval forest
    žalia giria - a green forest
    girios paukštis[2] - a wild bird
  2. (obsolete) wilderness
Declension
Declension of girià
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) girià gìrios
genitive (kilmininkas) gìrios gìrių
dative (naudininkas) gìriai gìrioms
accusative (galininkas) gìrią giriàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) girià gìriomis
locative (vietininkas) gìrioje gìriose
vocative (šauksmininkas) gìria gìrios
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • (diminutive) giraitė, girelė, giružė

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʲɪrʲɛ]

Verb

gìria

  1. third-person singular present of girti
  2. third-person plural present of girti

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 177-178.
  2. “giria” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
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