gĩtaigua

Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

Derived from kũigua (“to hear”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɣètaìɣuá/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, 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, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.^[2]

Noun edit

gĩtaigua class 7 (plural itaigua)

deaf person^[1]^[2]
Synonym: mbũra-matũ
(derogatory) the deaf^[3]
disobedient person^[1]

See also edit

(deaf person): buubu, kĩonje, gĩtumumu

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 “gĩtaigua” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 427. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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.
^ wa-Mungai, Mbugua (2009). ""For I name thee…": Disability Onomastics in Kenyan Folklore and Popular Music." Disability Studies Quarterly: the first journal in the field of disability studies 4(29). →ISSN

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