mũtĩ
Kamba
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *-tí.[1] Cognate to Kikuyu mũtĩ.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmũtĩ (plural mĩtĩ)
- (Machakos) tree
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 187. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns", p. 104. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *-tí.[1] Cognate to Kamba mũtĩ.[1]
Hinde (1904) records muti (pl. miti) as an equivalent of English tree in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba muti (pl. mitino), “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mti and Swahili mti (pl. miti) as its equivalents.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a monosyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
Audio: (file)
Noun
editmũtĩ class 3 (plural mĩtĩ)
Meronyms
editHolonyms
edit- (arrow shaft): mũguĩ
Derived terms
edit(Nouns)
- mũtĩ-mũirũ class 3
(Proverbs)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- gĩtĩ class 7
See also
edit(tree):
(stick):
(herbal medicine):
References
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 187. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 “mũtĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 453. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 33.
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