mũgeni
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gènì.
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ini, ngo, iburi, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.[2][3]
Noun edit
mũgeni class 1 (plural ageni)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- “mũgeni” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.