rũnyarĩrĩ

Kikuyu edit

Etymology edit

Hinde (1904) records runyarrire “foot” and runyadide “ankle” in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɾoɲaːɾeɾe/

This a is pronounced long.^[2]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 11 with a trisyllabic stem.

(Kiambu) IPA^(key): /ɾòɲàːɾèɾèꜜ/

Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies the term rũnyaarĩrĩ into a group including ini, ngo, iburi, mũgeni, mũndũ (pl. andũ), inooro, mwandĩko, and so on.^[3]^[4]

Noun edit

rũnyarĩrĩ class 11 (plural nyarĩrĩ)

instep
human foot

References edit

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 2–3, 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ “rũnyarĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 343. 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.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 2–3, 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[2] “rũnyarĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 343. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[yy1981-3] 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.

[yy1985-4] Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

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