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Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ngùbʊ́.
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
Noun
nguuũ class 9/10 (plural nguuũ)
- hippopotamus
See also
References
- “nguuũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 316. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 447. →ISBN