ndemwa
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editFrom gũtema (“to cut (with a knife)”).[1]
Hinde (1904) records mdemua as an equivalent of English tattoo in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
editndemwa class 9/10 (plural ndemwa)
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- mũtemi class 1
(Verbs)
See also
edit- (letter): mwandĩko
References
edit- ^ “ndemwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 291. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 58–59. 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.