igua

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kwiwa as an equivalent of English hear in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kwewa as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

igua (infinitive kũigua)

  1. to hear
  2. to feel
  3. to smell (at)
  4. to obey

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References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • “igua” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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