kĩande
Appearance
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records kiande as an equivalent of English shoulder in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- 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)
Noun
[edit]kĩande class 7 (plural ciande)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- “kĩande” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 12. Oxford: Clarendon Press.