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Kikuyu
Etymology
From kuoha (“to tie”).[1]
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.
Noun
kĩoho class 7 (plural cioho)
- prison[1]
- imprisonment[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “kĩoho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 357. Oxford: Clarendon Press.