thwara
Kikuyu
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili swala.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðoáɾà(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as thũara, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[2]
Noun
thwara class 9/10 (plural thwara)
- certain kinds of antelope
- Thomson's gazelle[1] (Eudorcas thomsonii)
- Grant's gazelle[1] (Nanger granti)
- impala[1] (Aepyceros melampus)
- reedbuck[1] (Redunca)
- large duiker[1]
Synonyms
- (Thomson's gazelle): ndaratari[3], ngũri[3], njuacui, gacuacui
- (impala): kĩrong'a[4]
- (reedbuck): bongwe
See also
- thuni, thwariga
- (duiker): thiya
References
- “thwara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. 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.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. ISBN 0-12-439901-0
- Leakey, op. cit., p. 452.