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ndutura

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Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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The second u is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩboboto, ndaraca, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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ndutura class 9/10 (plural ndutura)

  1. dove

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “ndutura” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  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.
  • Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 33.
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