rwara
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records ruarra as an equivalent of English nail (finger) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɾoàɾáꜜ/
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
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Noun
editrwara class 11 (plural ndwara)
Holonyms
editReferences
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.
Rwanda-Rundi
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ada.
Verb
edit-rwâra (infinitive kurwâra, perfective -rwâye)