karĩgũ
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records karegu as an equivalent of English girl in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- This ĩ is pronounced long.[2]
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
karĩgũ class 12 (plural tũrĩgũ)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. –. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “kĩrĩgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 396. Oxford: Clarendon 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.