ũgũrũki

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Kikuyu

Etymology

From a verb kũgũrũka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /òɣòɾòkì(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ũgũrũki class 14 (plural mogũrũki)

  1. madness, craziness

(Nouns)

References

  1. ^ ũgũrũki” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 130. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.