mũthita
Appearance
Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- This i is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]mũthita class 3 (plural mĩthita) (augmentative gĩthita)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũthita” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 518. 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.