kua
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-3 language code forKwanyama . kua
absolutive singular ofku CompareCebuano andTagalog kuha .
IPA (key ) : /kuˈʔa/ [kuˈʔa] Hyphenation:ku‧a kùa (plural kurua ,Basahan spelling ᜃᜓᜀ )
toget ; totake ; toseize ; toacquire ; toobtain tohire ; toemploy tomajor ( in a course ) toextract ; toderived from tofind ; todiscovery Synonyms: dukay ,hanap ( by extension ) tograb Synonym: takma Central Huasteca Nahuatl [ edit ] kua
toeat . kua
snake kua
bee Ross Perlin (2019 ),A Grammar of Trung [3] , Santa Barbara: University of California FromProto-Polynesian *tuqa (compare withMāori tua “back, behind, beyond”,Samoan tua “beyond, outside”,Tahitian tua “ridge, crest”, andTongan tuʻa ),[ 1] [ 2] fromProto-Oceanic *tuqan ( “ bone ” ) , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuqəlaŋ (compare withChamorro to'lang ,Malay tulang ,Ilocano tulang ),*tuqəlan ( “ bone ” ) , fromProto-Austronesian *CuqəlaN .[ 3]
kua
( anatomy ) back back ;rear burden kua
tocarry on the back, as a child ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986 ), “kua”, inHawaiian Dictionary , revised & enlarged edition, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press,→ISBN , page168 ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011 ), “tuqa1b ”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online ”, inOceanic Linguistics , volume50 , number 2, pages551-559 ^ Ross, Malcolm D.; Pawley, Andrew; Osmond, Meredith (2016 ),The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic , volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University,→ISBN , pages84-6 (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
kua
windward (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
kua
( transitive ) tochop ,chip ,hack ,dub ,strike ,cut out FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *kua . Cognates withKankanaey kua ,Central Bontoc kuwani ,Pangasinan kuan ,Tagalog kuwan ,Hanunoo kuwa ,Cebuano kuwan , andTontemboan kua ,kuan .
kuá
Replaces a word or root that the speaker cannot recall ;whatchamacallit ;thingy ;thingamajig With initial CV reduplication, used to form possessive pronouns Inherited fromProto-Bantu *-kúa . Hinde (1904) recordskukua (orkuite ) as equivalents of Englishdie in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then inKitui District ) ofKamba kugua as its equivalent.[ 1]
kua (infinitive gũkua )
todie [ 2] tobreak intopieces , tofall into pieces[ 2] ( Proverbs )
( Nouns )
( Adjectives )
kua
nonstandard spelling ofkuā nonstandard spelling ofkuǎ nonstandard spelling ofkuà Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.Inherited fromBavarian Kuah . Cognate withGerman Kuh ,English cow .
kua f
cow kua m or f
definite feminine singular ofku FromOld Norse kúga . Akin toEnglish cow .
kua (present tense kuar ,past tense kua ,past participle kua ,passive infinitive kuast ,present participle kuande ,imperative kua /ku )
tocow ,subdue kua f
definite singular ofku “kua” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromPortuguese qual andSpanish cual .
kua
which -kua
( transitive ) tobuy Inherited fromProto-Puroik *kua .
kua [ 1] [ 2]
water ^ Lieberherr, Ismael (2015 ), “A progress report on the historical phonology and affiliation of Puroik”, inNorth East Indian Linguistics (NEIL) [1] , volume 7, page 238 of 235–286 ^ Blench, Roger ; Post, Mark (2011 ),(De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence [2] Inherited fromProto-Bantu [Term?] .
-kua (infinitive kukua )
togrow ( to become bigger ) Conjugation of-kua Positive present -na kua Subjunctive -kue Negative -kui Imperative singular kua
Infinitives Imperatives Tensed forms Habitual hukua Positive past positive subject concord + -li kuaNegative past negative subject concord + -ku kua
Positive present (positive subject concord + -na kua) Singular Plural 1st person ni nakua/na kuatu nakua2nd person u nakuam nakua3rd person m-wa(I/II) a nakuawa nakuaother classes positive subject concord + -na kua
Negative present (negative subject concord + -kui ) Singular Plural 1st person si kuihatu kui2nd person hu kuiham kui3rd person m-wa(I/II) ha kuihawa kuiother classes negative subject concord + -kui
Positive future positive subject concord + -ta kuaNegative future negative subject concord + -ta kua
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -kue ) Singular Plural 1st person ni kuetu kue2nd person u kuem kue3rd person m-wa(I/II) a kuewa kueother classes positive subject concord + -kue
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -si kuePositive present conditional positive subject concord + -nge kuaNegative present conditional positive subject concord + -singe kuaPositive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngali kuaNegative past conditional positive subject concord + -singali kua
Perfect positive subject concord + -me kua"Already" positive subject concord + -mesha kua"Not yet" negative subject concord + -ja kua"If/When" positive subject concord + -ki kua"If not" positive subject concord + -sipo kuaConsecutive kakua /positive subject concord + -ka kuaConsecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -ka kue
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. SeeAppendix:Swahili verbs for more information.
FromProto-Sino-Tibetan *d/s-kəw .
kua
nine Zomi Ordbog by D.L. HaokipFromProto-Polynesian *kua . Cognates includeMāori kua andSamoan ʻua .
IPA (key ) : [ˈku.a] Hyphenation:ku‧a kua
Used to indicate thepresent perfect . R. Simona, editor (1986 ),Tokelau Dictionary [4] , Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page167 FromProto-Hmong-Mien *klæwX ( “ liquid, soup ” ) .[ 1]
kua
runny liquid ,fluid juice Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979 ),White Hmong — English Dictionary [5] , SEAP Publications,→ISBN , page89 . ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010 ),Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics,→ISBN , page276 .