metha

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili meza.[1]

Pronunciation

This e is pronounced long.[2][1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

metha class 9/10 (plural metha)

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 “metha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 259. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 36, 252.
  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.