rĩũmba

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Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũũmba (to mould, to create).[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

rĩũmba class 5

  1. mixture of sand and clay used for making pottery[1]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 ũmba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 553. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.