njikarĩro

Kikuyu

From gũikara (“to sit”).^[1]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a tetrasyllabic stem.

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

njikarĩro class 9/10 (plural njikarĩro)

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 “njikarĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 333. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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.