mwera

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /moɛ́ɾǎꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a disyllabic stem, together with matũũra, thani, kiuga, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including mũcura, thani, kagogo, kĩĩgamba, kĩĩhindiĩ, and so on.^[1]^[2]

Noun

mwera class 3 (plural mĩera)

hen^[3]
Hypernym: ngũkũ

References

^ 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.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.

“mwera” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 93. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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