ndũiga

Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

Hinde (1904) records ndwiga as an equivalent of English giraffe in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ndia and Swahili twiga as its equivalents.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ⁿdoiɣa/

Noun edit

ndũiga class 9/10 (plural ndũiga)

giraffe^[2]

Usage notes edit

Recently njirabu, a loanword of English origin, is more common and the native ndũiga is rarely used.^[3]

References edit

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.
^ Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact, p. 50.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[2] Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.

[jkn2016-3] Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact, p. 50.

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