ĩiya
- woe, alas. Woe, alas. An exclamation expressing grief, distress, or lamentation; used to convey sorrow or misfortune.
Example: Ĩiya wakwa-ĩ, niĩ mũthĩnĩki mũno-ĩ! Nũ ũngĩkĩ’honokia harĩ mwĩrĩ ũyũ wa gĩkuũ? (Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body?); Zef 2.12. ĨIYA-Ĩ, bũrũri ũrĩa wĩ ibatabata rĩa mathagu-ĩ, o ũcio wĩ mbarĩ ĩrĩa ĩngĩ ya njũĩ cia Kushi, (Ah! Land of buzzing insects, Land of buzzing insects : the region of the Upper Nile where these multiplied with great rapidity. Ethiopia : in Hebrew, Kush . The center of this ancient kingdom corresponds geographically to the modern Sudan, Roman Nubia. Papyrus boats : light and serviceable vessels made of bundles of papyrus stalks and sealed with pitch. Egypt, ruled by a dynasty from Ethiopia, had invited Judah to join a coalition against Assyria, but Isaiah told the ambassadors to return to their own people.)