njegeeke
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- njegeke[1]
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records enjegeki as an equivalent of English armpit in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᶮdʑɛ́ɣɛ̀ːkɛ́ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including kĩĩhuruta, itarara, gĩtumumu in common.[3][4]
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, ngũngũni, and so on.[3]
Noun
njegeeke class 9/10 (plural njegeeke)
- armpit
References
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 33.
- 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.
- “njegeeke” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.