mũkebe

Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Swahili mkebe.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /mòkɛ́βɛ́ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.^[2]

Noun edit

mũkebe class 3 (plural mĩkebe)

tin, can

See also edit

kĩbaba, gĩkobo

References edit

^ “mũkebe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 212. 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.

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