mũitĩrĩro

Kikuyu

FWOTD – 26 January 2020

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.

(Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[1]

mũitĩrĩro class 3 (plural mĩitĩrĩro)

^ 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.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “mũitĩrĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 192. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 450. →ISBN