ikia
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ikia/
Verb
ikia (infinitive gũikia)
- to put in, to throw, to dip
- Ndaikia mbugi manjarara... - And I have thrown a bell down on a rocky surface? (riddle; the answer is Mũiti wa njahĩ ikũmbĩ (“one who puts lablab beans into a store”).)[1]
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua
- thũ ndĩgũaga harĩa ĩikagio
See also
- gũte
References
- “njarara2” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).