mũthiũrũrũko
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editDerived from gũthiũrũrũka (“to go circularly”).
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with gĩeterero, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) Yukawa (1981:100–101,121) classifies this term into a group, whose remaining member is mwathimũro (“sneeze”).[1]
Noun
editmũthiũrũrũko class 3 (plural mĩthiũrũrũko)
Related terms
edit(Verbs)
(Nouns)
- thiũrũra class 9
References
edit- ^ 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.
- “mũthiũrũrũko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 519. Oxford: Clarendon Press.