rũgama
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records kurugamma as an equivalent of English stand in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- This ũ is pronounced long.[2]
Verb
editrũgama (infinitive kũrũgama)
- to stand (still)
Derived terms
edit(Verbs)
- (Nouns)
- mũrũgamĩrĩri class 1
References
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “rũgama” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 416. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).