mwĩthũa
Kikuyu
Etymology
From a verb gũthũa.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moèðó(w)ǎꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as mũithũa, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including biribiri, cibũ (“chief”), gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), gĩtara, ithanwa, ithandũkũ, kĩng'aurũ, mũthigari, mũthũ, mwatũka, mbũkũ, ndigithũ, njata, rũbutu (pl. mbutu), thaburia, and so on.[2]
Noun
mwĩthũa class 3 (plural mĩĩthũa)
- itching, itch
- Hypernym: ndwari
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- mwĩthũa wĩ gũtũ/itina ndũthũanagwo
References
- “mwĩthũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 203. 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.