gĩthoguo
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Swahili kibaba (“a pint”) and analyzed as kĩ- + baba (“my father”), on which punned with thoguo (“thy father”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- The first o is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as gĩthooguo, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun edit
gĩthoguo class 7 (plural ithoguo)
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- kĩbaba class 7
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “gĩthoguo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 523. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.