kĩreru

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See also: kireru

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kirreru as an equivalent of English chin in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

kĩreru class 7 (plural ireru)

  1. chin[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 12–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.
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