gĩtina

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kitinna as an equivalent of English root in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba itina and Swahili shina (pl. mashina) as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes njata, gĩkabu, gĩtara, ithanwa, karani, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

gĩtina class 7 (plural itina)

  1. base
    gĩtinainĩ kĩa mũtĩ ― at the base of a tree

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  • “gĩtina” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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