ng'ondu
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from a Central Sudanic language, in which it originally meant "goat".
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, 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.[1]
Noun edit
ng'ondu class 9/10 (plural ng'ondu)
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- mũgwata-ng'ondu class 3
- kamũgwata-ng'ondu class 12
(Proverbs)
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.
- “ng'ondu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Ehret, Christopher (1968) “Sheep and Central Sudanic Peoples in Southern Africa”, in The Journal of African History, volume 9, number 2, pages 213–221