Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records mbesha as an equivalent of English money in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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This e is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mbeca class 10

  1. money
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(Nouns)

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ beca” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 27. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ 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.

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mbeca

  1. Eclipsed form of beca.