gĩtanda
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Swahili kitanda.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
editgĩtanda class 7 (plural itanda)
References
edit- ^ “gĩtanda” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 430. 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.