ngitĩ
See also: ngiti
Kamba edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records ngiti of “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) as equivalents of English dog, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu ngiti as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- tonal pattern: HL[2]
Noun edit
ngitĩ (plural ngitĩ)
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records kui and ngiti as equivalents of English dog in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba ngiti as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation 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.
- Yukawa (1981) classified this term into a group including mũka, mwĩrĩ, kĩroboto, nyũmba, etc.[2] and Yukawa (1985) merges these to another group including kahiũ, mũtĩ, and so on.[3]
Noun edit
ngitĩ class 9/10 (plural ngitĩ)
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- “ngitĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 310. Oxford: Clarendon Press.