itahuha
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ìtáhùːháꜜ/
- This u is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.
Noun
itahuha class 5 (plural matahuha)
- puff adder (Bitis arietans)
See also
- ndarabubwa
References
- “itahuha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 426. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 461. →ISBN