dya

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a. Cognate with Tumbuka -lya and Yao -lya

• IPA^(key): /ɗʲa/

-dya (infinitive kudyá)

1. eat

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -dyera
  • Causative: -dyetsa
  • Negative: -sadya
  • Passive: -dyedwa
  • Reduplicative: -dyadya
  • Repetitive: -dyanso
  • Stative: -dyeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • chakudya (“food”)
  • mdya (“eater”)
  • wakudya (“eater”)

• -bwabwayira (“to eat without chewing”)
• -nyomphola
• -nyong'olera
• -nyong'omera

dya m (plural dyas)

1. alternative spelling of dia

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

-dyá (infinitive kudyá)

1. to eat

Univerbation of de +‎ ia, from English here.^[1] Compare Jamaican Creole ya.

dya

1. here (in, on, or at this place)
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, Neger-Englisches Worterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     a dea

     [A dya.]

     Here it is.

2. here, hither (to this place)
   • ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk, Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word [New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies]‎^[3], Frankfurt/Madrid: Iberoamericana, retrieved 20 March 2021:

     Odi mijn heer hoe fa joe tan gran tanki fo myn heer a komi ja^{[sic – meaning kom ija]} fo loeke da pranasie wan trom.

     [Odi mijnheer, fa yu tan? Grantangi fu mijnheer [taki] a kon dya fu luku a pranasi wan tron.]

     Good day, Sir, how are you? Many thanks to Sir, [that] he has come here to look at the plantation on this occasion.

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ́a.

dya

1. to eat