thũngũri
Kikuyu
editPronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 11 with a trisyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
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- 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.[1]
Noun
editthũngũri class 9/10 (plural thũngũri)
Derived terms
edit(Nouns)
- gathũngũri class 12
- gĩthũngũri class 7
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “thũngũri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 537. Oxford: Clarendon Press.