mũciarithia

Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

Hinde (1904) records husiarishia and mwitcharithia as equivalents of English midwife in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili mzalisha as their equivalent.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /mòɕiàɾíðiá/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) IPA^(key): /mòɕiàɾìðiá/

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 edit

mũciarithia class 1 (plural aciarithia)

midwife

References edit

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–41. 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.

“mũciarithia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 56. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[yy1981-2] 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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