ndwari
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Derived from kũrũara (“to be sick”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as ndũari, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun edit
ndwari class 9/10 (plural ndwari)
Hyponyms edit
- kĩegetha, rũharo, ũhere, mahĩa, kĩhuti, mahũha, mwĩthũa, mangũ, mbatata, ndangũrũ, mũrimũ wa ihiga, kĩronda, kĩrũngũrĩra, gatema, matende
Related terms edit
(Adjectives)
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References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “ndwari” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 303. 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.
- ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, p. 905. →ISBN