kĩegetha
Kikuyu
Etymology
From kwegetha (“to hiccup”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keɛ̀ɣɛ́ðà(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
Noun
kĩegetha class 7 (plural ciegetha)
- hiccup[1][2]
- Synonym: rwegetha[2]
- Hypernym: ndwari[2]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- mwegetho class 3
References
- “kĩegetho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 905, 926. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN