kiumia
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiumia/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kĩgongona, njege, and so on.[1]
Noun
kiumia class 7 (plural ciumia)
- week
See also
- mũthenya < kiumia < mweri < mwaka
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.
- “kiumia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 542. Oxford: Clarendon Press.