ngunĩko
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From gũkunĩka (“to put on the lid”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
ngunĩko class 9/10 (plural ngunĩko) (augmentative gĩkunĩko; diminutive gakunĩko)
References edit
- ^ “ngunĩko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 314. 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.