Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From gwatha (to order, to command).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /wà(ː)ðɔ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

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watho class 14 (plural mawatho)

  1. law, rule
    kũrũmĩrĩra wathoto observe the law

References

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  1. ^ watho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 19–20. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.