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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records njata as an equivalent of English star in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ndata and Swahili nyota as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes gĩkabu, gĩtara, ithanwa, karani, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem.

Noun

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njata class 9/10 (plural njata)[5]

  1. star

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  5. ^ “njata” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.