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kĩara

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See also: Kiara

Kikuyu

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Etymology 1

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From a verb kwara.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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kĩara class 7 (plural ciara)

  1. dunghill, midden, compost pit
See also
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Etymology 2

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From a verb kwara.[1]

Hinde (1904) records kiarra as an equivalent of English finger in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[3]

Pronunciation

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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

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kĩara class 7 (plural ciara) (diminutive kaara[4])

  1. finger
Meronyms
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Holonyms
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Derived terms
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(Proverbs)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 ara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 14. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 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.
  3. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Stump, Gregory T. (2005). "Word-formation and inflectional morphology", p. 64. In Pavol Štekauer and Rochelle Lieber (eds.) Handbook of Word-Formation, pp. 49–72. Dordrecht: Springer. →ISBN
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gathara, Janeesther Wanjiru (2015). A cognitive approach to Gikuyu polysemy, pp. 23–24.