hĩtũka

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuhitukka as an equivalent of English pass in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kubita and Swahili kupita as its equivalent.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hetoka/

Verb

hĩtũka (infinitive kũhĩtũka)

to pass

Derived terms

(Verbs)

kũhĩtũkĩra

(Proverbs)

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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