rũhĩa

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See also: Rūhia

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ruher as an equivalent of English horn in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbia as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾòheǎ/, /ɾòhèá/
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.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class,  Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kahiũ, mũtĩ, rũhĩa (pl. hĩa), and so on.[3]
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Noun

rũhĩa class 11 (plural hĩa) (diminutive kahĩa)

  1. horn

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  • “rũhĩa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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