gũra

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuūrra as an equivalent of English buy in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

gũra (infinitive kũgũra)

  1. to buy

Antonyms

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).