gĩcicio
Kikuyu
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- The first i is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu) According to Yukawa (1981:101; 1985:194,198,200,202):
- Yukawa (1981) classified this term into a group including kĩohe, njege, rĩĩtwa, icungwa, igongona,[2] which Yukawa (1985) incorporates into another group including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a certain kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, and so on.[3]
Noun
editgĩcicio class 7 (plural icicio)
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “gĩcicio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 58. 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact, p. 41.