iguku
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records iguku as an equivalent of English hump in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ìɣùkú/
- 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.[2]
- (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.[3]
Noun
iguku class 5 (plural maguku)
- hump (especially one on the back of a cow)
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- ĩrĩ gũkũra ĩrĩagwo iguku nĩ aka
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “iguku” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. 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.