cokia
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editCausative form of gũcoka.
Hinde (1904) records kushokia as an equivalent of English return (give back) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kusokia as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcokia (infinitive gũcokia)
Derived terms
edit(Nouns)
- macokio class 6
References
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).