mũikari

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Derived from gũikara (to sit).

Pronunciation

  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /mòìkàɾì(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (fire), mwario (way of speaking), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (breast(s)), and so on.[1]

Noun

mũikari class 1 (plural aikari)

  1. (human) resident

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

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.