coka
See also: Čoka
Ainu
Etymology
Contraction of ciokay.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [t͡ʃó̞ꜜkà]
Pronoun
coka (Kana spelling チョカ)
- (Saru dialect) (exclusive) we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
See also
| person | isolated form | affix form | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | objective | |||
| first | singular | kuani, kani1 | ku=, k=1 (before vowels) | en= |
| exclusive plural | ciokay, coka1, ciutari | ci=, c=1 =as | un= | |
| inclusive plural | anokay, aoka1, anutari | a=, =an | i= | |
| second | singular | eani | e= | |
| plural | eciokay, ecioka1, eciutari | eci= | ||
| singular (polite) | anokay, aoka1 | a=, =an | i= | |
| plural (polite) | anokay, aoka1, anutari | |||
| third | singular | sinuma, anihi | ∅= | |
| plural | okay, oka1 | |||
| indefinite | singular | asinuma | a=, =an | i= |
| plural | anokay, aoka1, anutari | |||
1. Saru dialect
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kushoka as an equivalent of English return in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gujoka as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɕɔːka/
Verb
coka (infinitive gũcoka)
Derived terms
(Verbs)
(Names)
- Njoki f
(Proverbs)
- gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke
See also
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “coka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.