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kĩrĩgũ

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Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

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This ĩ is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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kĩrĩgũ class 7 (plural irĩgũ)

  1. big uncircumcised girl

See also

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References

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  1. ^ rĩgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 396. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.