ithangũ
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records mathangu as an equivalent of English leaves and foliage in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mathaangu (“leaves”) or mathangu (“foliage”) as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
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Noun edit
ithangũ class 5 (plural mathangũ)
Holonyms edit
See also edit
- icoya (musaceous)
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25, 36–37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- “ithangũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.