rumu
Anguthimri edit
Noun edit
rumu
- (Mpakwithi) fishnet
Verb edit
rumu
- (intransitive, Mpakwithi) to bend down
References edit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English room.[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
rumu class 9/10 (plural rumu)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “rumu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 409. 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.
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rumu