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gatarũ

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Diminutive of itarũ (“boat, ship, canoe”).[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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gatarũ class 12 (plural tũtarũ)

  1. small boat, small canoe
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(Nouns)

References

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  1. ^ “gatarũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 434. 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.
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