nthakame
Kamba edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records nthakame of “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) and ndagami of “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) as equivalents of English blood, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu sakame as their equivalent.[1]
Noun edit
nthakame
- (Machakos) blood
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns", p. 110. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.