mũkururo
Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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]mũkururo class 3 (plural mĩkururo) (diminutive kamũkururo)
Related terms
[edit](Nouns)
- gakurura class 12
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “mũkurura” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 241. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.