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Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kirima as an equivalent of English hill and mountain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kiima (“hill, mountain”) and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba nikima (“hill”) and kilima kinene (“mountain”), and Swahili kilima (“hill”) (pl. vilima) and mlima (“mountain”) (pl. milima) as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[2]
Noun
kĩrĩma class 7 (plural irĩma)
- hill, mountain
(Nouns)
References
- “kĩrĩma” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 399. Oxford: Clarendon Press.