nding'oing'o
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From a verb gũting'oing'a.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun edit
nding'oing'o class 9/10 (plural nding'oing'o) (diminutive gating'oing'o)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “nding'oing'o” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 293. 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.
- Ng'ang'a, Philip M. (1996). Mũũgĩ nĩ Mũtaare, p. 143. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN