kĩgunyarĩrĩ

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kèɣùɲàːɾèɾè(ꜜ)/
This a is pronounced long.
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kĩgunyarĩrĩ class 7 (plural igunyarĩrĩ)

  1. a hairy caterpillar

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 gunyarĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 124. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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. ^ Kiruhi, Macharia (2006). Lessons in Kikuyu oral literature: Figures of Speech in Contemporary Use, pp. 65, 91. Ongata Rongai, Kenya: Cortraph. →ISBN