gatarũ
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editDiminutive of itarũ (“boat, ship, canoe”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
editgatarũ class 12 (plural tũtarũ)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- gĩtarũ class 7
References
edit- ^ “gatarũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 434. 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.