kĩbiriti
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili kibiriti[1] or kiberiti,[2] from Arabic كِبْرِيت (kibrīt).
Pronunciation
[edit]- The penultimate i is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as kĩbiriiti, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]
Noun
[edit]kĩbiriti class 7 (plural ibiriti)
Related terms
[edit](Nouns)
- ũbiriti class 14
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “kĩbiriti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 30. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mugane, John M. (2015) The Story of Swahili (Africa in World History), Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 55: “And kĩbiriti (matchbox) is from Swahili kiberiti”
- ^ 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.