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Kikuyu
Etymology
From kwamba (“to do first”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
ambĩrĩria (infinitive kwambĩrĩria)
- (transitive) to begin, to start
Derived terms
(Nouns)
References
- ^ “ambĩrĩria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).