mũthaatũ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòðàːtó/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[1]
Noun
mũthaatũ class 3
- misty season, from July to early September[2]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- thaatũ class 14
See also
- muoria-nyoni
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.
- “gathaatũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 485. Oxford: Clarendon Press.