mũting'oe

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Benson (1964) suspects affinity with Maasai ol-kidong'oi (tail).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mò.tìː.ŋɔ̀.ɛ́ꜜ/
This i is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.
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Noun

mũting'oe class 3 (plural mĩting'oe)

  1. tail
    Synonym: gĩcuthĩ

(Nouns)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 tong'oe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 460. 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.