gĩthoguo
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili kibaba (“a pint”) and analyzed as kĩ- + baba (“my father”), on which punned with thoguo (“thy father”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- The first o is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as gĩthooguo, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun
[edit]gĩthoguo class 7 (plural ithoguo)
Related terms
[edit](Nouns)
- kĩbaba class 7
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “gĩthoguo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 523. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.