nding'oing'o
Kikuyu
Etymology
From a verb gũting'oing'a.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ⁿdìŋɔ̀ìŋɔ̀(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
nding'oing'o class 9/10 (plural nding'oing'o) (diminutive gating'oing'o)
- dung beetle[1]
- stupid, fool, idiot[1]
- Synonym: kĩrimũ
References
- “nding'oing'o” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 293. 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.
- Ng'ang'a, Philip M. (1996). Mũũgĩ nĩ Mũtaare, p. 143. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN