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Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records ithanoa (pl. mathanoa) as an equivalent of English axe in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ì.ðá.nwáꜜ/, /ì.ðá.noáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes njata, gĩkabu, gĩtara, karani, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.[3]
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies the term ithanũa into groups, both of which include mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a certain kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.[4][5]
Noun
ithanwa class 5 (plural mathanwa) (diminutive gathanwa)
- axe
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ “ithanwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 492. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.