ambĩrĩria
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Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kwamba (“to do first”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]ambĩrĩria (infinitive kwambĩrĩria)
- (transitive) to begin, to start
Derived terms
[edit](Nouns)
- kĩambĩrĩria class 7
- mwambĩrĩrio class 3
References
[edit]- ^ “ambĩrĩria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).