gĩcuthĩ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣèɕùðéꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[1]
Noun
gĩcuthĩ class 7 (plural icuthĩ)
- tail
- gĩcuthĩ kĩa mũrũthi - a lion's tail[2]
- Synonym: mũting'oe
Related terms
(Nouns)
- mũcuthĩ class 3
- rũcuthĩ class 11
References
- 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.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “gĩcuthĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 76. Oxford: Clarendon Press.