"nĩ" meaning in Kikuyu

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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "nĩ",
      "name": "head"
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  ],
  "lang": "Kikuyu",
  "lang_code": "ki",
  "pos": "particle",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Kikuyu links with redundant target parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant target parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "_dis": "100 0",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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          "_dis": "100 0",
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          "name": "Kikuyu particles",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "no gain without pain (lit. to warm oneself is to stoke the fire)",
          "text": "gũota mwaki nĩ kũhuria"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "is"
      ],
      "id": "en-nĩ-ki-particle--lH9Sav2",
      "links": [
        [
          "is",
          "is"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(copula) is"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "copulative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "God's fire is kept through the night by a dried banana bark.",
          "text": "Mwaki wa Ngai ũraaragio nĩ igoto."
        },
        {
          "english": "I was told by my birdlet.",
          "text": "Njĩrirũo nĩ kanyoni gakwa."
        },
        {
          "english": "Two honey badgers are not defeated by a beehive.",
          "text": "Thegere igĩrĩ itiremagwo nĩ mwatũ."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by"
      ],
      "id": "en-nĩ-ki-particle-p-LSbo0V",
      "links": [
        [
          "by",
          "by"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in passive construction) by"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in passive construction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ne/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nĩ"
}

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      "expansion": "nĩ",
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  ],
  "lang": "Kikuyu",
  "lang_code": "ki",
  "pos": "particle",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Kikuyu links with redundant target parameters"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "no gain without pain (lit. to warm oneself is to stoke the fire)",
          "text": "gũota mwaki nĩ kũhuria"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "is"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "is",
          "is"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(copula) is"
      ],
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        "copulative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "God's fire is kept through the night by a dried banana bark.",
          "text": "Mwaki wa Ngai ũraaragio nĩ igoto."
        },
        {
          "english": "I was told by my birdlet.",
          "text": "Njĩrirũo nĩ kanyoni gakwa."
        },
        {
          "english": "Two honey badgers are not defeated by a beehive.",
          "text": "Thegere igĩrĩ itiremagwo nĩ mwatũ."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "by"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "by",
          "by"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in passive construction) by"
      ],
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        "in passive construction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ne/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nĩ"
}