riika
See also: Riika
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾìːkà(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
riika class 5 (plural mariika)
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- nyũmba na riika itiumagwo
References
- “rika” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- Davison, Jean (1996) Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, 1910-1995, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, →ISBN, page 32
- Nganga, Nobuko, Nganga, Peter S. (2013) “The Kinship System and Rule for Naming Children in Kikuyu People of Kenya”, in 長崎大学教育学部社会科学論叢 (in Japanese), pages 25–33
Northern Sami
Etymology
Borrowed from Low German rike, Swedish rike, or Old Swedish rīke. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Compare Estonian riik.
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈrijːka/
Inflection
| Even a-stem, ik-ikk gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominative | riika | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | riikka | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nominative | riika | riikkat | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accusative | riikka | riikkaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | riikka | riikkaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Illative | riikii | riikkaide | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Locative | riikkas | riikkain | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Comitative | riikkain | riikkaiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Essive | riikan | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
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