mũrĩmi

mũrĩmi

Kikuyu

Etymology

Derived from kũrĩma (“to cultivate”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mòɾèmì(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

mũrĩmi class 1 (plural arĩmi)

1. farmer, cultivator[2][1]

Related terms

(Nouns)

• ũrĩmi class 14

References

1. “mũrĩmi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 399. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).