ngui

== Huli == === Numeral === ngui fifteen ngui ki : 15*2 i.e. 30 ngui tebo : 15*3 i.e. 45 ngui ngui : 15*15 i.e. 225 nguini angi : on the fifteenth day ==== Usage notes ==== Huli is the only known language with a pentadecimal (base-15) numeral system. === Further reading === Nicholas J. Goetzfridt, Pacific Ethnomathematics: A Bibliographic Study (2008, →ISBN), page 129 Laurence Goldman, Child's play: myth, mimesis and make-believe (1998, →ISBN), page 59: Huli chart the movement of the moon (ega) in two blocks of fifteen days. The standardised depiction is given as follows: Hombene angi hontbene ibule On the twelfth day it will come out on top halene angi hale howa hama ibule on the thirteenth day it will come silently listening dene angi de howa yalu ibule on the fourteenth day having opened its eyes, the moon will come nguini angi ngui higi bu yalu ibule on the fifteenth day with squinted nose it will come (on days 16-24 the moon is 'on top of the hill' (dindi hombene)) == Kikuyu == === Etymology === Hinde (1904) records kui and ngiti as equivalents of English dog in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ᵑɡú.íꜜ/ As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on. (Kiambu) (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on. === Noun === ngui class 9/10 (plural ngui) dog Synonym: ngitĩ ==== See also ==== mbwe, njũi === References === “ngui” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 313. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10. == Mizo == === Adjective === ngui sad, depressed, unhappy === Further reading === Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “ngui”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society