kĩĩmbu

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kēēmbu as an equivalent of English chameleon in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba keembu as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kĩĩmbu class 7 (plural ciĩmbu)

  1. chameleon[4][5]

See also

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. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ “kĩĩmbu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 199. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 460. →ISBN
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