mũthece
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- mũtheece
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records muthēchi as an equivalent of English beak in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòðɛ̀ːɕɛ́/
- The first e is pronounced long.[2]
- 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.[3]
Noun
mũthece class 3 (plural mĩthece)
- beak
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- nyoni yakaga (nyũmba) na mũthece ũmwe
Related terms
(Verbs)
- gũtheca
See also
- mũthia
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mũthece” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 499. 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.