gĩcigĩrĩra

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣèɕìɣéɾèɾáꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩgorogoru, kĩĩhutaatĩ, and so on.[1]
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

gĩcigĩrĩra class 7 (plural icigĩrĩra)

  1. island

References

  1. ^ “gĩcigĩrĩra” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 58. 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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