ndogo

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ndoogo as an equivalent of English smoke and steam respectively in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ⁿdɔ̀ːɣɔ̀(ꜜ)/
The first o is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ndogo class 9

  1. smoke[3][2]
  2. steam[2]

(Verbs)

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 54–5, 56–7
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “ndogo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 296. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  4. ^ 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.

Swahili

Adjective

ndogo

  1. N class inflected form of -dogo.
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