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Kikuyu
Etymology
From gũthĩnja (“to slaughter, to slay”).[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
Noun
ithĩnjĩro class 5 (plural mathĩnjĩro)
- place where slaughter takes place[1]
- Synonym: gĩthinjĩro
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “ithĩnjĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 521. Oxford: Clarendon Press.