itina
Kikuyu
Etymology 1
Hinde (1904) records itina as an equivalent of English buttocks in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ìtìnáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun
itina class 5 (plural matina)
- buttocks
- Synonyms: ndina, njikarĩro
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- indo ciene inoragia mũndũ itina rĩmwe
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ìtínáꜜ/
Noun
itina class 8
- plural of gĩtina
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- “itina” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 449. Oxford: Clarendon Press.