ngũrũe

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ngurruwe as an equivalent of English pig in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ngūe and Swahili nguruwe as its equivalents.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ᵑɡòɾòɛ̀(ꜜ)/
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.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /ŋòɾòwɛ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, as ng'ũrũwe, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[4]

Noun

ngũrũe class 9/10 (plural ngũrũe)

  1. pig
    Hypernym: mahiũ[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 31.
  2. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ 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.
  • “ngũrũe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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