huko
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Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.
Noun
huko class 9/10 (plural huko)
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ^ “huko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 168. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Leaky, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 458. →ISBN
- ^ McGregor, Arthur Wallace (1905). A Grammar of the Kikuyu Language, p. 27. London: Richard Clay & Sons.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 33.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
huko f
Anagrams
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
huko
- ku class(XV/XVII) inflected form of hiyo
Adverb
huko
Verb
huko
- second-person singular negative present of -wako (“you are not (around there)”)