kĩbiriti
Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili kibiriti[1] or kiberiti[2], from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kèβìɾìːtìꜜ/
- The penultimate i is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as kĩbiriiti, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]
Noun
kĩbiriti class 7 (plural ibiriti)
- matchbox
Related terms
(Nouns)
- ũbiriti class 14
References
- “kĩbiriti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 30. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Mugane, John M. (2015). The Story of Swahili, p. 55. Athens, Ohio: Ohio 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.