mũrĩmi
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Derived from kũrĩma (“to cultivate”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
Noun edit
mũrĩmi class 1 (plural arĩmi)
Related terms edit
(Nouns)
- ũrĩmi class 14