gĩthũũkũ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣèðòːkó/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[1]
Noun
gĩthũũkũ class 7
- measles[2][3][4]
- Synonym: mũthũũkũ[4]
- Hypernym: mũrimũ[4]
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.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 258.
- “gĩthũũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 538. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 888–905. →ISBN