iturubarĩ

Kikuyu

Borrowed from Swahili tofali.^[1]

According to Benson (1964) and Yukawa (1981:109), this a is pronounced long.

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as iturubaarĩ, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

iturubarĩ class 5 (plural maturubarĩ)

^ “itubarĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 465. 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.