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Kikuyu
Etymology 1
From a verb kwara.[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
kĩara class 7 (plural ciara)
- dunghill, midden, compost pit
See also
Etymology 2
From a verb kwara.[1]
Hinde (1904) records kiarra as an equivalent of English finger in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[3]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun
kĩara class 7 (plural ciara) (diminutive kaara[4])
- finger
Meronyms
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “kĩara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 14. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Stump, Gregory T. (2005). "Word-formation and inflectional morphology", p. 64. In Pavol Štekauer and Rochelle Lieber (eds.) Handbook of Word-Formation, pp. 49–72. Dordrecht: Springer. →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gathara, Janeesther Wanjiru (2015). A cognitive approach to Gikuyu polysemy, pp. 23–24.