mũcũrĩ

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See also: Mucuri

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũcũrĩ class 3 (plural mĩcũrĩ)

  1. neck of a calabash cut in a half, used as a handle[2]

Holonyms

(Nouns)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ cũrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 82. Oxford: Clarendon Press.