ihũa

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ìhó(w)áꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.^[1]^[2]

Noun

ihũa class 5 (plural mahũa)

flower

References

^ 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.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

“ihũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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