itunda

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili matunda.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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itunda class 5 (plural matunda)

  1. fruit

References

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  1. ^ itunda” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 471. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.