mũcuthĩ
Kikuyu edit
Pronunciation edit
- 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 mũcũthĩ, 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.[1]
Noun edit
mũcuthĩ class 3 (plural mĩcuthĩ)
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- rũcuthĩ class 11
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ “mũcuthĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 76. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Njoroge, Rita Njeri (2014). "Euphemisms and taboo words: a case of Kikuyu's Kabete dialect," p. 26.