ihũa
Kikuyu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]ihũa class 5 (plural mahũa)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- “ihũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.