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Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records okorrora as an equivalent of English cough in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba gukoa and Swahili kukohoa as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
korora (infinitive gũkorora)
- to cough
Derived terms
(Nouns)
References
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).