irathĩro
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
From kũratha (“to rise (of the sun)”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun edit
irathĩro class 5
Coordinate terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ “irathĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 373. 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.