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Kikuyu
Etymology
From kwegetha (“to hiccup”).[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
kĩegetha class 7 (plural ciegetha)
- hiccup[1][2]
- Synonym: rwegetha[2]
- Hypernym: ndwari[2]
(Nouns)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “kĩegetho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 905, 926. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN