kĩgomano
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a verb kũgoma (“to meet”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- 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, 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.[2]
Noun
[edit]kĩgomano class 7 (plural igomano)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit](Nouns)
- igomanĩro class 5 / magomanĩro class 6
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “kĩgomano” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 117. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 231.