metha
See also: Metha
Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili meza.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ̀ːðàꜜ/
- This e is pronounced long.[2][1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as meetha, 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
metha class 9/10 (plural metha)
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References
- “metha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 259. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 36, 252.
- 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.