rũraacio
Kikuyu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Derived from kũraacia (“to pay bridewealth”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- 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.[2]
Noun edit
rũraacio class 11 (plural ndaacio)
- bride price, bridewealth; cows, sheep, goats, cash, mead, etc. paid continuously by a groom to his father-in-law.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ “rũraacio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 364. 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.
- Parkin, David (1978). The Cultural Definition of Political Response: Lineal Destiny Among the Luo, p. 251. London and New York: Academic Press.