kahũa
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Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili kahawa,[2] ultimately from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).
Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]kahũa class 12
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beentje, H.J. (1994). Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. Nairobi, Kenya: National Museum of Kenya. →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “kahũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.