different between tuya vs thuya

English

Etymology

Named after Tuya Butte, in British Columbia.

Noun

tuya (plural tuyas)

1. (geology) Mesa formed by a volcano under a glacier.

Hypernyms

• volcano

Further reading

• tuya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Yuat, Yuta

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin tua, singular feminine form of tuus (“your”).

Pronoun

tuya f sg

1. feminine singular of tuyo

Related terms

Determiner

tuya f sg

1. feminine singular of tuyo

Related terms

Etymology 2

From New Latin thuja, from Ancient Greek ???? (thuía), an African tree that was formerly included in the genus.

Noun

tuya f (plural tuyas)

1. (botany) (Thuja) thuja

Derived terms

• tuya articulada

Etymology 3

From English tuya, from an Athabaskan language.

Noun

tuya f (plural tuyas)

1. (geology) tuya

Tagalog

Verb

tuya

1. to taunt; mock; jeer

Derived terms

• tuyain
• manuya
• panunuya

Waray-Waray

Noun

tuya

1. giant

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