mũthigiti
Appearance
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili msikiti,[1] ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).
Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]mũthigiti class 3 (plural mĩthigiti)
References
[edit]- ^ “mũthigiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 508. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.