rũũga

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kurugaruga as an equivalent of English jump in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili kuruka as its equivalent.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾoːɣa/

Verb

rũũga (infinitive kũrũũga)

to jump

Related terms

(Nouns)

ndũũgo class 9

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
“rũũga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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