rumu
AnguthimriEdit
NounEdit
rumu
- (Mpakwithi) fishnet
VerbEdit
rumu
- (intransitive, Mpakwithi) to bend down
ReferencesEdit
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 188
KikuyuEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English room.[1]
PronunciationEdit
- 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]
NounEdit
rumu 9 or 10 (plural rumu)
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 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.
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rumu