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Kamba
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.
Noun
ngũngũni
- bedbug
References
Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with batĩrĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, and so on.
Noun
ngũngũni class 9/10 (plural ngũngũni)
- bedbug
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 196. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 32.