rũhĩ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records ruhi as an equivalent of English hand in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu[1].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾohe/
Noun
rũhĩ class 11 (plural hĩ)
- palm of the hand[2]
- hand[3]
- Synonym: njara
Holonyms
- (palm of the hand): guoko
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 11.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).