-kuhĩ
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Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records -kuhi as an equivalent of English short in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba -kubi, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba -gube, and Swahili -fupi as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- 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.
Adjective
[edit]-kuhĩ
Inflection
[edit]agreement of -kuhĩ
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1, Class 2 | mũkuhĩ | akuhĩ |
| Class 3, Class 4 | mũkuhĩ | mĩkuhĩ |
| Class 5, Class 6 | ikuhĩ | makuhĩ |
| Class 7, Class 8 | gĩkuhĩ | nguhĩ |
| Class 9, Class 10 | nguhĩ | nguhĩ |
| Class 11, Class 10 | rũkuhĩ | nguhĩ |
| Class 12, Class 13 | gakuhĩ | tũkuhĩ |
| Class 14, Class 6 | mũkuhĩ | makuhĩ |
| Class 15, Class 6 | gũkuhĩ | makuhĩ |
| Class 16 | hakuhĩ | - |
Derived terms
[edit](Proverbs)
Related terms
[edit](Nonus)
- ũkuhĩ class 14
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “-kuhĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 233. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 57.