njata
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records njata as an equivalent of English star in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ndata and Swahili nyota as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᶮdʑátáꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes gĩkabu, gĩtara, ithanwa, karani, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups, both of which include mũthũ, mũcibi, ikabũ, mũthee, mahũa, ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a certain kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.[3][4]
Noun
njata class 9/10 (plural njata)[5]
- star
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.
- “njata” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.