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Kamba
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kí̧ŋgɔ̄.[1]
Hinde (1904) records ngingo of “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) and njingo of “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) as equivalents of English neck, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu ngiingo and Swahili shingo (pl. mashingo) as their equivalents.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
ngingo
- neck
References
Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kí̧ŋgɔ̄.[1]
Hinde (1904) records ngiingo as an equivalent of English neck in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba ngingo, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba njingo and Swahili shingo (pl. mashingo) as its equivalents.[2]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[4]
Noun
ngingo class 9/10 (plural ngingo)
- neck
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 187. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- “ngingo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.