bitharĩ
Kikuyu
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Swahili bizari.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- This a is pronounced long.
- 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
editbitharĩ class 9/10
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bitharĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 30. 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.