lakiri
Baltic Romani
Pronoun
lakiri
- (Litovska) feminine genitive of joj
Declension
| singular | plural | reflexive | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||||
| m | f | ||||||||
| Nominative | mē | tu | jou | joj | amē | tumē | jonē | - | |
| Accusative/ Independent Oblique |
man | tut | lēs | la | amēn | tumēn | lēn | pes | |
| Dative | mange | tuke | lēske | lake | amēnge | tumēnge | lēnge | pēske | |
| Ablative1 | mandyr | tutyr | lēstyr | latyr | amēndyr | tumēndyr | lēndyr | pēstyr | |
| Genitive | m | miro | tyro | lēskiro | lakiro | amaro | tumaro | lēngiro | pēskiro |
| f | miri | tyri | lēskiri | lakiri | amari | tumari | lēngiri | pēskiri | |
| pl | mirē | tyrē | lēskirē | lakirē | amarē | tumarē | lēngirē | pēskirē | |
| Locative | mandē | tutē | lēstē | latē | amēndē | tumēndē | lēndē | pēstē | |
| Instrumental | mansa | tusa | lēsa | lasa | amēnca | tumēnca | lēnsa | pēsa | |
| Enclitic Reflexive | man | pe | amēn | pe | - | ||||
1 The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani.
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese lacre.[1][2][3]
Noun
lakiri class IX (plural lakiri class X)
- seal (wax or resin used to seal letters)
References
- ^ Johnson, Frederick (1939), A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 240
- ^ Tucker, A. N. (1946), “Foreign Sounds in Swahili”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies[1], volume 11, number 4, , page 861 of 854-871
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (16 October 2023), Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 40), Leiden: Brill, , →ISBN, page 197 Nr. 544