kĩĩhuruta
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Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kihurruta as an equivalent of English butterfly in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- The penultimate u is pronounced long.[2]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩgorogoru, kĩĩhutaatĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including njegeeke, itarara, gĩtumumu in common.[3][4]
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, ngũngũni, and so on.[3]
Noun
kĩĩhuruta class 7 (plural ciĩhuruta)
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “kĩĩhuruta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 197. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.