jiya
Gun
Etymology
Most likely from Proto-Gbe *-ya (“suffering”) or possibly from Yoruba jìyà (“to suffer”). Cognates include Fon jìyà, Saxwe Gbe jì àyà, Adja ʒì aya. Compare Yoruba jìyà, Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba jùyà, Ifè dzìyà, Olukumi zùyà
Pronunciation
Verb
jìyà
Gurindji
Noun
jiya
References
- Patrick McConvell. 2009. Gurindji vocabulary.
In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 1028entries. (Available online at http://wold.clld.org/vocabulary/31, Accessed on 2022-05-03.)
Xhosa
Etymology
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Verb
-jiya?
- (transitive) to thicken
Inflection
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Yoruba
Alternative forms
Etymology
From jẹ (“to consume”) + ìyà (“suffering”). Cognates include Ifè dzìyà, Olukumi zùyà. Compare Gun jìyà, Fon jìyà, Saxwe Gbe jì àyà, Adja ʒì aya
Pronunciation
Verb
jìyà
- to suffer
Derived terms
- ìjìyà (“suffering”)
- Gun terms inherited from Proto-Gbe
- Gun terms derived from Proto-Gbe
- Gun terms borrowed from Yoruba
- Gun terms derived from Yoruba
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- Gurindji nouns
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- Yoruba compound terms
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- Yoruba lemmas
- Yoruba verbs