gatarũ

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Diminutive of itarũ (boat, ship, canoe).[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

gatarũ class 12 (plural tũtarũ)

  1. small boat, small canoe

(Nouns)

References

  1. ^ gatarũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 434. 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.