gĩkuũ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣè.kuǒꜜ/
- Armstrong (1940:50) presents this terms as ɣeku͜o. 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.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.[2]
- (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.[3]
Noun
gĩkuũ class 7
- death
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- gĩkuũ gĩtirĩ gĩathĩ
- gĩkuũ gĩtithemagwo ta njĩra
Related terms
(Verbs)
- gũkua
(Adjectives)
- -kuũ
- (Nouns)
- mũkuũ
References
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “gĩkuũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 242. 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.
Anagrams
- kĩguũ