mũting'oe
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Benson (1964) suspects affinity with Maasai ol-kidong'oi (“tail”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- This i is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as mũtiing'oe, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
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Noun
[edit]mũting'oe class 3 (plural mĩting'oe)
Related terms
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References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũtong'oe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 460. 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.