kĩegetha

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kwegetha (“to hiccup”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /keɛ̀ɣɛ́ðà(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.

Noun

kĩegetha class 7 (plural ciegetha)

hiccup^[1]^[2]
Synonym: rwegetha^[2]

Hypernym: ndwari^[2]

Related terms

(Nouns)

mwegetho class 3

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “kĩegetho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 905, 926. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN

[tgb-1] 1.0 ^1.1 “kĩegetho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[lsbl-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 905, 926. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN

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