mwĩrĩ

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word mwĩrĩ. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word mwĩrĩ, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say mwĩrĩ in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word mwĩrĩ you have here. The definition of the word mwĩrĩ will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmwĩrĩ, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mwiri as an equivalent of English body in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba mwi, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mwili and mwiakwa, and Swahili mwili (pl. miilī) as its equivalents.

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including mũka, ngitĩ, kĩroboto, nyũmba, and so on.

Noun

mwĩrĩ class 3 (plural mĩĩrĩ)

  1. body

Proverbs

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  • “mwĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia