rũraacio
Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from kũraacia (“to pay bridewealth”).[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]
Noun
[edit]rũraacio class 11 (plural ndaacio)
- bride price, bridewealth; cows, sheep, goats, cash, mead, etc. paid continuously by a groom to his father-in-law.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “rũraacio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 364. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- Parkin, David (1978). The Cultural Definition of Political Response: Lineal Destiny Among the Luo, p. 251. London and New York: Academic Press.