mũthongorima

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muthongorrima as an equivalent of English anthill in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòðɔ̀ᵑɡɔ́ɾímá/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩririkania, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981:119) classified this term into a group whose only remaining member is mũtamaiyũ,[2] while Yukawa (1985:196,199,201) claims that hũ(n)gũrũrũ (“bank, coast”) is a mate of this term.[3]

Noun

mũthongorima class 3 (plural mĩthongorima)

hole or cavity under the ground made naturally or by ants[4]

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
“mũthongorima” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 526. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[yy1981-2] 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.

[yy1985-3] Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

[4] “mũthongorima” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 526. Oxford: Clarendon Press.