ndete
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
- (Northern) ndiiti
Pronunciation edit
- The first e is pronounced long. As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a disyllabic stem, together with matũũra, thani, kiuga, and so on.
Noun edit
ndete class 9/10 (plural ndete) (diminutive gatete class 12)
- species of warbler, especially grass warbler
References edit
- “ndete” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 292. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977) The Southern Kikuyu before 1903[1], volume 2, London and New York: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 695