wandĩndĩ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wàⁿdèⁿdèꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[1]
Noun
wandĩndĩ
- single-stringed chordophone
References
- 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.
- “wandĩndĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 560. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Kavyu, Paul N. (2013). "Music in Kenya". In Ruth M. Stone (ed.) The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Africa. New York: Routledge. →ISBN