ambĩrĩria
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From kwamba (“to do first”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ambĩrĩria (infinitive kwambĩrĩria)
- (transitive) to begin, to start
Derived terms edit
(Nouns)
- kĩambĩrĩria class 7
- mwambĩrĩrio class 3
References edit
- ^ “ambĩrĩria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).