mũthongorima
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records muthongorrima as an equivalent of English anthill in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩririkania, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981:119) classified this term into a group whose only remaining member is mũtamaiyũ,[2] while Yukawa (1985:196,199,201) claims that hũ(n)gũrũrũ (“bank, coast”) is a mate of this term.[3]
Noun
editmũthongorima class 3 (plural mĩthongorima)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- ^ “mũthongorima” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 526. Oxford: Clarendon Press.