ũraihu
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editFrom kũraiha (“to be long/tall/far”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.
Noun
editũraihu class 14 (plural moraihu)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- mũraihu class 1
(Adjectives)
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “ũraihu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 367. 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.