kĩrĩma

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records kirima as an equivalent of English hill and mountain in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kiima (hill, mountain) and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba nikima (hill) and kilima kinene (mountain), and Swahili kilima (hill) (pl. vilima) and mlima (mountain) (pl. milima) as its equivalents.[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) IPA(key): /kèɾèmá/

Noun

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kĩrĩma class 7 (plural irĩma)

  1. hill, mountain
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(Nouns)

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33, 40–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
  • rĩma” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 399. Oxford: Clarendon Press.