cũcũ
See also: cucu
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- cũũcũ
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɕòːɕǒꜜ/
- The first ũ is pronounced long.[1][2]
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes nyamũ, gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), Kariũki (“man's name”), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.[4]
Noun
cũcũ class 1 (plural cũcũ)[2]orcũcũ class 1 (plural macũcũ)[2]
- my grandmother, gramma
See also
- (thy) ũcũguo, cũguo
- (his or her) ũcũwe, cũwe
References
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 246, 262.
- “cũcũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 77. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.