irio

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English

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Noun

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irio (uncountable)

  1. (Kenya) A Kenyan dish of mashed potatoes, maize, and other vegetables.
    • 2010, Barbara Sheen, Foods of Kenya, page 21:
      There are almost as many ways to prepare irio as there are Kenyan cooks. Irio almost always starts with potatoes, corn, and beans, but then Kenyan cooks add any number of other ingredients to the dish. Spinach, fried onions, vegetables, []

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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From kũrĩa (to eat).[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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irio class 8[1]

  1. food

Derived terms

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See also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 irio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 390. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

Latin

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Etymology

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Unknown.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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īriō m or f (genitive īriōnis); third declension

  1. a siliquose plant, probably a member of the genera Barbarea (wintercress or yellow rocket) or Sisymbrium (comprising several species of mustard and rocket)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īriō īriōnēs
Genitive īriōnis īriōnum
Dative īriōnī īriōnibus
Accusative īriōnem īriōnēs
Ablative īriōne īriōnibus
Vocative īriō īriōnēs

Synonyms

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References

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  • īrĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • īrĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 856/3.
  • Īriō” on page 966/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “irio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 718

Portuguese

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Verb

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irio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of iriar