marakara
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From kũrakara (“to be angry”).
Pronunciation edit
- The first a of the stem is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 11 with a trisyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun edit
marakara class 6
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
References edit
- ^ “irakara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 368. 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.