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ndegwa

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Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records ndēgua as an equivalent of English bull in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ⁿdɛ̀(ː)ɣwàꜜ/, /ⁿdɛ̀(ː)ɣoàꜜ/
Barlow (1960) treats this e as short, while Benson (1964) as long.
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (fire), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (man's name), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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ndegwa class 9/10 (plural ndegwa)

  1. bull, ox[4]
    Synonym: ndume
    Hypernym: ng'ombe

Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 68.
  • “ndegwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.