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rũgama

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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This ũ is pronounced long.[2]

Verb

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rũgama (infinitive kũrũgama)

  1. to stand (still)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “rũgama” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 416. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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