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Jiya

adverbNeeds reviewpage 72

Portuguese spellingJiiá

Definitions

  1. 1
    • At length
    • Endlessly
    • With great delay.

    PT Demoradamente · Infinitamente · Com muita demora.·FR Longuement · Infiniment · Avec beaucoup de retard.

    Seen in the folk-tales

    • Jinzo joso anga jiia mu kalubungu.All the houses then went back into the kalubungu.IX · told by One of Chatelain's Sunday-school boys at Loanda, unnamed
Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 72 (left)\u00b7 modern spelling canonical, source spelling redirected