ũka

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuka as an equivalent of English come in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuka as its equivalent.

Pronunciation

Verb

ũka (infinitive gũũka)

  1. to come

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).