itarara

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Kikuyu

itarara (Python sebae)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìtá(ː)ɾàːɾáꜜ/
Benson (1964) shows that the first and second a are pronounced long,[1] while Yukawa (1981:122, 1985:199) claims that only the second one is long.[2][3]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.

Noun

itarara class 5 (plural matarara)

  1. python,[4][5][6] especially (African) rock python[1][7] (Python sebae)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “itarara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 433. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  4. ^ Koigi wa Wamwere (2002). I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom, p. 74. Seven Stories Press.
  5. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 461. →ISBN
  6. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 9, 33.
  7. ^ Ehret, C. and E. D. Elderkin and D. Nurse (1989). "Dahalo lexis and its sources", p. 8. In Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 18, pp. 5–49. Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik, University of Cologne.
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