cũcũ

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See also: cucu

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

The first ũ is pronounced long.[1][2]
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes nyamũ, gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (my aunt), Kariũki (man's name), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

cũcũ class 1 (plural cũcũ)[2] or cũcũ class 1 (plural macũcũ)[2]

  1. my grandmother, gramma

See also

References

  1. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 246, 262.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 “cũcũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 77. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  4. ^ 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.