ũbuthu
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editFrom kũbutha (“to be rotten”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
editũbuthu class 14 (plural mobuthu)
References
edit- ^ “ũbuthu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 37. 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.