ũtune

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Kikuyu

Etymology

ũ- +‎ -tune (red)

Pronunciation

This u is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

ũtune class 14 (plural motune)

  1. redness, red

References

  1. ^ “ũtune” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 470. 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.
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