Note 315 — Chapter IV · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS AN ARMY
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Kiaya is a word which offered infinite difficulties of pronunciation and spelling; for example, gachaia, cacaia, checaya, quaia, queaya, caia, cahaia, chiccaia, chechessi. Some authors employ a different spelling each time they use the word. Trevisano, 118, gives chietcudasci. Kiaya represents the popular pronunciation. The more nearly correct form of the word, following the Turkish spelling, is ketkhuda.