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See also: ruaí
French[edit]
Verb[edit]
ruai
- first-person singular past historic of ruer
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
ruai
- (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural imperative of ruar
Iban[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀuqaŋ. Cognate with Malay ruang.
Noun[edit]
ruai
Descendants[edit]
- → Malay: ruai
Kikuyu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cf. Maasai eluaai (“whistling thorn”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.
Noun[edit]
ruai class 9/10 (plural ruai)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 61. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 19 August 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
- ^ “ruai” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 407. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Iban ruai. Doublet of ruang.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ruai (Jawi spelling رواي, plural ruai-ruai or reruai, informal 1st possessive ruaiku, 2nd possessive ruaimu, 3rd possessive ruainya)
Further reading[edit]
- “ruai” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
ruai
Categories:
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- Iban terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Iban terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Iban lemmas
- Iban nouns
- Kikuyu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kikuyu lemmas
- Kikuyu nouns
- Kikuyu class 9 nouns
- Kikuyu class 10 nouns
- ki:Mimosa subfamily plants
- Malay terms borrowed from Iban
- Malay terms derived from Iban
- Malay doublets
- Malay 2-syllable words
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Malay/uai̯
- Rhymes:Malay/wai̯
- Rhymes:Malay/ai̯
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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