ũrĩrĩ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records orrere as an equivalent of English bed in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba ui as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /òɾèɾè(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, 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.[3]
Noun
ũrĩrĩ class 14 (plural morĩrĩ)
- bed
- Synonym: gĩtanda
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- kahũniĩ gatũhaga ũrĩrĩ wa nyina
- njĩra nguhĩ nĩ ya ũrĩrĩ
- ũbataire nĩwe ũhuuraga ũrĩrĩ
Related terms
(Nouns)
- kĩrĩrĩ class 7
See also
- kĩmamo
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.
- “ũrĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.