mũthece

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muthēchi as an equivalent of English beak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

The first e is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũthece class 3 (plural mĩthece)

  1. beak

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References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “mũthece” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 499. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  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.
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