iheeni
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From kũheenia (“to tell a lie”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- 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.
- (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
iheeni class 5 (plural maheeni)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- mũheenania class 1
References edit
- ^ “iheeni” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 145. 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.