kahĩĩ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kahi as an equivalent of English boy in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kàhèé/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.^[2]

Noun

kahĩĩ class 12 (plural tũhĩĩ)

little boy

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

See also

kahĩĩ < kĩhĩĩ < mwanake < mũthuuri

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.

“kahĩĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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