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Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ìkʊ́mì.
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
Noun
ikũmi class 5 (plural makũmi)
- ten[1]
See also
References
- ^ “ikũmi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 243. Oxford: Clarendon Press.