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Kikuyu
Etymology
From Common Bantu *kɪ̀dòndà.
Hinde (1904) records kironda as an equivalent of English sore and ulcer in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba dondee (“ulcer”), and Swahili donda (“sore”) (pl. madonda) and donda ndugu (“ulcer”) 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 cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
kĩronda class 7 (plural ironda)
- sore, ulcer;[3] especially veldt sore,[4] Barcoo rot, (diphtheric) desert sore, septic sore
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