kĩmamo

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Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

This a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kĩmamo class 7 (plural imamo)

  1. place where animal or person sleeps; lair[1]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 mamo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 252. 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.