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Kikuyu
Etymology
From kũgwata (“to grasp, to seize”).[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
Noun
ũgwati class 14 (plural mogwati)
- danger, hazard[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “ũgwati” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 133. Oxford: Clarendon Press.