mũcuthĩ
See also: mũcũthi and mũcũthĩ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɕùðéꜜ/
- 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)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as mũcũthĩ, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[1]
Noun
mũcuthĩ class 3 (plural mĩcuthĩ)
- fairly long tail of any animal[2]
- Synonyms: gĩcuthĩ, mũting'oe
- (Kabete) penis[3]
- Synonym: mũthiita
Related terms
(Nouns)
- rũcuthĩ class 11
References
- 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.
- “mũcuthĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 76. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Njoroge, Rita Njeri (2014). "Euphemisms and taboo words: a case of Kikuyu's Kabete dialect," p. 26.