biyu

Hausa

Etymology

An early Chadic borrowing from Benue-Congo. Compare Proto-Bantu *-bàdɪ́ (“two”) (Swahili wili, Zulu bili). Cognate with Miship vɛl, Saya vul, Tal vwel, Bole bòlou.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bí.jú/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bɪ́.jʊ́]

**Hausa numbers ^(edit)**
	20
← 1	2	3 →
Cardinal: biyu

Numeral

biyu f

two

Adjective

biyu (feminine biyu, plural biyu)

double

Derived terms

biyu biyu

References

Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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