mũthece

Kikuyu edit

Alternative forms edit

mũtheece

Etymology edit

Hinde (1904) records muthēchi as an equivalent of English beak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /mòðɛ̀ːɕɛ́/

The first e is pronounced long.^[2]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) 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.^[3]

Noun edit

mũthece class 3 (plural mĩthece)

beak

Derived terms edit

(Proverbs)

nyoni yakaga (nyũmba) na mũthece ũmwe

Related terms edit

(Verbs)

gũtheca

See also edit

mũthia

References edit

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ “mũthece” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 499. 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.

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