dya

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forDyan.

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Inherited fromProto-Bantu*-dɪ́a. Cognate withTumbuka-lya andYao-lya

• IPA^(key): /ɗʲa/

-dya (infinitivekudyá)

1. eat

   Synonym:-likira

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative:-dyera
  • Causative:-dyetsa
  • Negative:-sadya
  • Passive:-dyedwa
  • Reduplicative:-dyadya
  • Repetitive:-dyanso
  • Stative:-dyeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • chakudya(“food”)
  • mdya(“eater”)
  • wakudya(“eater”)

• -bwabwayira(“to eat without chewing”)
• -nyomphola(“to only eat a small amount of food because you're not hungry”)
• -nyong'olera
• -nyong'omera

• Steven Paas (2016),Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎^[2], Oxford University Press, page767

dya m (pluraldyas)

1. alternative spelling ofdia

FromProto-Bantu*-dɪ́a.

-dyá (infinitivekudyá)

1. toeat

• -vundunya(“to eat a large amount of anything”)

Univerbation ofde +‎ia, fromEnglishhere.^[1] CompareJamaican Creoleya.

dya

1. here(in, on, or at this place)
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann,Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎^[3], archived fromthe original on8 February 2023:

     adea

     [Adya.]

     Here it is.

2. here,hither(to this place)
   • ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk,Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word [New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies]‎^[4], Frankfurt/Madrid: Iberoamericana, retrieved20 March 2021:

     Odi mijn heer hoe fa joe tan gran tanki fo myn heer a komi ja^{[sic – meaningkomija]} fo loeke da pranasie wan trom.

     [Odi mijnheer, fa yu tan? Grantangi fu mijnheer [taki] a kondya fu luku a pranasi wan tron.]

     Good day, Sir, how are you? Many thanks to Sir, [that] he has comehere to look at the plantation on this occasion.

Inherited fromProto-Bantu*-dɪ́a.

dya

1. toeat

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