thwara
Appearance
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swahili swala.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]thwara class 9/10 (plural thwara)
- certain kinds of antelope
Synonyms
[edit]- (Thomson's gazelle): ndaratari,[3] ngũri,[3] njuacui, gacuacui
- (impala): kĩrong'a[4]
- (reedbuck): bongwe
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “thwara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. →ISBN
- ^ Leakey, op. cit., p. 452.