mũcakwe

Kikuyu edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /mòɕákoɛ́ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) IPA^(key): /mòɕákoɛ̀(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, as mũcakũe, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.^[1]

Noun edit

mũcakwe class 3 (plural mĩcakwe)

corncob, cob

Holonyms edit

mbembe

Derived terms edit

(Proverbs)

mũcakwe ũgũithagia njamba

References edit

^ 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.

“mũcakwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 44. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[yy1981-1] 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.

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