njohi
Kikuyu
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records enjohi as an equivalent of English beer (native) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- This o is pronounced long.[2]
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, nyũmba, etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[4]
Noun
[edit]njohi class 9/10 (plural njohi)
- alcoholic beverage made from sugar-cane or honey;[2] the former is fermented with a thoroughly dried sausage tree fruit[5]
- any kind of alcoholic beverage[6]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “njohi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 334. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Steinkraus, Keith H. (ed.) (1996). Handbook of Indigenous Fermented Foods, 2nd ed., rev. and expanded, pp. 373–374. New York: Marcel Dekker. →ISBN
- ^ Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). "Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact", p. 53.