kĩgunyũ

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kunyu and kigunyu as equivalents of English caterpillar in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kĩgunyũ class 7 (plural igunyũ)

  1. caterpillar
  2. maggot

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 12–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “kĩgunyũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxii–xxiii, 124. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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