mwĩthũa
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
mwĩthũa class 3 (plural mĩĩthũa)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
References edit
- ^ “mwĩthũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 203. 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.