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单词 rũhĩa
释义

rũhĩa

See also: Rūhia

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ruher as an equivalent of English horn in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbia as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾòheǎ/, /ɾòhèá/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class,  Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kahiũ, mũtĩ, rũhĩa (pl. hĩa), and so on.[3]

Noun

rũhĩa class 11 (plural hĩa) (diminutive kahĩa)

  1. horn

See also

  • coro, thongori

References

  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 3233. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75123.
  • hĩa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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