mũtongoria
Kikuyu
Etymology
From gũtongoria (“to lead”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòtɔ̀ᵑɡɔ́ɾiá/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups, which include thakame in common.[2][3]
Noun
mũtongoria class 1 (plural atongoria)
- leader
Related terms
(Nouns)
- ndongoria class 9/10
See also
- mwathani, cibũ, mũkũi, mũnene, mũthamaki
References
- “mũtongoria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 459. 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.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.