mũcibi
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Swahili mshipi.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups, both of which include mũthũ, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a certain kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.[2][3]
Noun
editmũcibi class 3 (plural mĩcibi)
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũcibi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.