maguta
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *màkútà. Hinde (1904) records maguta as an equivalent of English oil in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba maota and Swahili mafuta as its equivalents[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mbori class which includes mbũri, ikinya (pl. makinya), itimũ, kĩhaato, mbembe, mũgeka, mũrata, nyaga, ũhoro, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ, Kamau (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1885) classifies this term into a group including rũrĩmĩ, mũrume, mbũri, itimũ, ikara, mũthia, mũiko, riũa, ndinoho, mbembe, kĩhaato, kĩheeo, ũhoro (pl. mohoro), rĩĩhia, rĩũmba, and so on.[3][4]
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Noun
editmaguta class 6
- oil, fat
- maguta ma mbarĩki ― castor oil
Derived terms
edit(Proverbs)
- mũici ũrĩ hunyũ arindagĩra ũrĩ maguta
- mũthekani huunyũ nĩ mũhakani maguta
- mwagi maguta oigaga (atĩ) hunyũ nĩ ũmwe na arũme
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 44–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ 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.
- “maguta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.