rĩu

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See also: riu, ríu, rìu, and ri'u

Kikuyu

Etymology

rĩ- +‎ -u

Hinde (1904) records rēu as an equivalent of English now and to-day in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

Adverb

rĩu

  1. now[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43, 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “-u” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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