kĩmera
Kikuyu
Etymology
Derived from kũmera (“to germinate, to sprout”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Kiambu) IPA(key): /kèmɛ̀ɾà(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, 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.[2]
Noun
kĩmera 7 (plural imera)
- season (for agriculture)
- irio cia kĩmera ― seasonal crops
- (agriculture) crops
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- kuona kĩmera ti kũrĩa
References
- “kĩmera” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 258. Oxford: Clarendon 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.