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Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili sanduku,[1][2] from Arabic صَنْدُوق (ṣandūq).
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.[3]
Noun
ithandũkũ class 5 (plural mathandũkũ)
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References
- ^ “ithandũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 493. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (2011) “Swahili: A Donor Language”, in Lingua Posnaniensis, volume 53, number 1, →DOI, page 16 of 7-24
- ^ 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.