ithandũkũ

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili sanduku,[1][2] from Arabic صَنْدُوق (ṣandūq).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ìðàⁿdókóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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ithandũkũ class 5 (plural mathandũkũ)

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References

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  1. ^ ithandũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 493. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Baldi, Sergio (2011) “Swahili: A Donor Language”, in Lingua Posnaniensis[1], volume 53, number 1, →DOI, page 16 of 7-24
  3. ^ 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.