Kikuyu

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ngũbia

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Swahili kofia (a kind of hat).[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /ᵑɡòβíjáꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, as ngũbiya, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (chief), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.[2]

Noun

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ngũbia class 9/10 (plural ngũbia)

  1. cap, hat[1][3]
  2. tilde (̃); a diacritical mark over vowel letter such as ĩ or ũ.[1]

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 “ngũbia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 316. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 12, 34.