ngũha

Kikuyu edit

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.^[1]

ngũha class 9/10 (plural ngũha)

Benson (1964) translated this term as cattle tick, i.e. Rhipicephalus annulatus or R. microplus, neither of which, according to Nijhof et al. (2018) however, is found in Kenya, where Kikuyu people live.^[2]
More recent studies highlight the importance in Kenya of Rhipocephalus appendiculatus (brown ear tick), vector of East Coast fever (theileriosis). Numerous other species of ticks of genus Rhipocephalus (brown ticks) and other genera also harm cattle in Kenya.

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^ 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.
^ Nijhof A.M., Guglielmone A.A. & Horak I.G. (2018). TicksBase (version 5.6, Jun 2005). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2018. Digital resource at https://web.archive.org/web/20200513162655/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. →ISSN. (retrieved 13 February 2018)

“ngũha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 317. Oxford: Clarendon Press.