korora
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Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records okorrora as an equivalent of English cough in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba gukoa and Swahili kukohoa as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]korora (infinitive gũkorora)
- to cough
Derived terms
[edit](Nouns)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).