-erũ

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kierru as an equivalent of English white in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Adjective

-erũ

  1. white
  2. light-colored

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References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 66–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • “-erũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 95. Oxford: Clarendon Press.