kĩrĩro
Kikuyu
Etymology
From kũrĩra (“to weep”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kèɾèɾɔ́ꜜ/
- 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) IPA(key): /kèɾèɾɔ̀(ꜜ)/
- (Limuru) 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
kĩrĩro class 7 (plural irĩro)
- weeping[1]
- mourning[1]
See also
(mourning)
- kĩeha, ihooru
References
- “kĩrĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 401. 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.