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Kikuyu
Etymology
From gũkorora (“to cough”).[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[4]
- The same underlying pattern as that of mũthigari and nyamĩndigi.[3]
Noun
gĩkorora class 7 (plural ikorora)
- phlegm
(Nouns)
References
- ^ “gĩkorora” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 232. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 1–20.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kagaya, Ryohei (1982). "Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns in Three Dialects: Murang'a, Nyeri and Ndia." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 24, 1–42.
- ^ 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.