Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records uthio as an equivalent of English face in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba uthio and Swahili uso (pl. nyuso) as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.

Noun

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ũthiũ class 14 (plural mothiũ)

  1. face[3]
    Meronyms: rũbutu, riitho, ikai, kĩmone, iniũrũ, kanua

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 22–3
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ ũthiũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 519. Oxford: Clarendon Press.