nguyo
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records nguyu as an equivalent of English colobus monkey in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- This u is pronounced long.[2]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]
Noun edit
nguyo class 9/10 (plural nguyo)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “nguyo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 316. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 454. →ISBN