different between thuya vs thuja

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

thuya (plural thuyas)

1. Any member of the genus Thuya.
   • 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, 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 [...].

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.ja/

Noun

thuya m (plural thuyas)

1. thuya

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records th?ya and s?ya as equivalents of English flea in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ðù?já?/

This u is pronounced long.

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

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as thuuya, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including b?r?ri (pl. mab?r?ri), ikara, ikinya, itim?, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, k?haato, maguta, m?geka, m?konyo, m?rata, mwana, mbembe, mb?ri, nyaga, riitho, ri?a, r?r?m? (pl. n?m?), ?horo (pl. mohoro), and so on.

Noun

thuya 9 or 10 (plural thuya)

1. flea

   Synonym: k?roboto

See also

• ndutu, ngage

References

English

Etymology

From taxonomic New Latin Thuja, from Ancient Greek ???? (thuía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.d??/

Noun

thuja (plural thujas)

1. A tree of the genus Thuja.

Hypernyms

• arborvitae, cypress

Translations

See also

• thuja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thuja on Wikispecies.Wikispecies