Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili sufuria.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.

Noun

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thaburia class 9/10 (plural thaburia)

  1. metal cooking pot, saucepan

See also

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References

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  1. ^ “thaburia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 486. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 55:Similarly, sufuria (metal cooking pot) is borrowed as sugria in Dholuo and as thaburia in Gĩkũyũ
  3. ^ Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu", pp. 7, 9. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22.
  4. 4.0 4.1 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.