ngũngũni
Kamba edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.[1]
Noun edit
ngũngũni
References edit
- ^ Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 196. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with batĩrĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, and so on.[2]
Noun edit
ngũngũni class 9/10 (plural ngũngũni)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 196. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 32.