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ikara

Kikuyu

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FWOTD – 28 May 2020

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Bantu *ìkádà.[1]

Hinde (1904) records makarra as an equivalent of English charcoal in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba makaa and Swahili makaa ya miti as its equivalent.[2]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

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ikara class 5 (plural makara)

  1. (chiefly in plural) charcoal

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Bantu *-jìkada, extensive form of *-jìka.

Verb

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ikara (infinitive gũikara)

  1. to sit[4][5]
  2. to stay, to remain[4][6]
  3. to dwell[4]
Derived terms
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(Nouns)

See also
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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 187. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
  2. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 12–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  5. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 45, 204.
  6. ^ Barlow, op. cit., p. 34.

Rwanda-Rundi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *ìkádà.

Noun

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ikára class 5 (plural amakára class 6)

  1. charcoal

Yoruba

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Ìkàrà

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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ìkàrà

  1. (Ekiti, Ijesha) akara

Derived terms

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