rĩma
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Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records kurimma as an equivalent of English cultivate in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuimu and Swahili kulima as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rĩma (infinitive kũrĩma)
Derived terms
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(Proverbs)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 16–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 32, 236, 243.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).