kahĩĩ

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Kikuyu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kahĩĩ class 12 (plural tũhĩĩ)

  1. little boy

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
  • kahĩĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.