thuya

From the genus name.

thuya (plural thuyas)

1. Any member of the genus Thuya.
   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, section VIII:

     Thuya, Ara, or Sandrac-tree, is probably the Arbor vitæ of Theophrastus: it is similar in leaf to the juniper, and, besides producing the gum sandrac, the wood is invaluable [...].

• IPA^(key): /ty.ja/

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thuya m (plural thuyas)

1. thuya

• “thuya”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Hinde (1904) records thūya and sūya as equivalents of English flea in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ðùːjáꜜ/

This u is pronounced long.[2]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as thuuya, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[3]

thuya class 9/10 (plural thuya)

1. flea[2][4]

   Synonym: kĩroboto

• ndutu, ngage