icungwa

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili chungwa.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iɕuᵑɡwa/, /iɕuᵑɡoa/, /iɕoᵑɡoa/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.

Noun

icungwa class 5 (plural macungwa)

  1. orange

(Nouns)

See also

References

  1. ^ “mũcungwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 75. 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.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
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