mũthigiti

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Swahili msikiti,[1] ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mòðìɣítì(ꜜ)/
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

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mũthigiti class 3 (plural mĩthigiti)

  1. mosque

References

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  1. ^ thigiti” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 508. Oxford: Clarendon 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.