kĩreru
Appearance
See also: kireru
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records kirreru as an equivalent of English chin in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kĩreru class 7 (plural ireru)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 12–13. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.