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Fanagalo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Zulu inyoni, from Proto-Bantu *njʊ̀nì.
Noun
[edit]nyoni
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *njʊ̀nì. Hinde (1904) records nyoni as an equivalent of English bird in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili nyuni etc. as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (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]
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]nyoni class 9/10 (plural nyoni) (diminutive kanyoni)[3]
Derived terms
[edit](Nouns)
- muoria-nyoni class 3
(Proverbs)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 6–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- ^ “nyoni” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 349. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Categories:
- Fanagalo terms inherited from Zulu
- Fanagalo terms derived from Zulu
- Fanagalo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
- Fanagalo terms derived from Proto-Bantu
- Fanagalo lemmas
- Fanagalo nouns
- Kikuyu terms inherited from Proto-Bantu
- Kikuyu terms derived from Proto-Bantu
- Kikuyu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kikuyu terms with audio pronunciation
- Kikuyu lemmas
- Kikuyu nouns
- Kikuyu class 9 nouns
- Kikuyu class 10 nouns
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