kĩmera
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editDerived from kũmera (“to germinate, to sprout”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- 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
editkĩmera class 7 (plural imera)
- season (for agriculture)
- (agriculture) crops
Derived terms
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References
edit- ^ “kĩmera” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 258. 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.