mũhaara

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Kikuyu

Etymology

From a verb kũhaara.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũhaara class 3 (plural mĩhaara)

  1. column (of ants, etc.)[1]
  2. trail of column of ants; used by them in their usual activity[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 haara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 134. Oxford: Clarendon 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.