kĩgomano
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From a verb kũgoma (“to meet”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), 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]
Noun edit
kĩgomano class 7 (plural igomano)
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- igomanĩro class 5 / magomanĩro class 6
See also edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “kĩgomano” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 117. 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.
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 231.