mũhikania
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòhìkàniá/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a trisyllabic stem, together with mũrĩmĩre, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including kĩng'ang'i, mũthũa, mũrũarũ, nyenje, icembe, and so on.[1][2]
Noun
mũhikania class 1 (plural ahikania)
- groom[3]
- Antonym: mũhiki[3]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- kĩhikanio class 7
- ũhiki class 14
See also
- mũthuuri
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.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 18.
- “mũhikania” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.