marakara
KikuyuEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From kũrakara (“to be angry”).
PronunciationEdit
- 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]
NounEdit
marakara class 6
Derived termsEdit
(Proverbs)
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “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.