bangiri

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili bangili, ultimately from certain Indo-Aryan language(s)[1] (cf. Hindi बंग्ली (baṅglī)).

Pronunciation
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class,  Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including mũhĩrĩga, thakame, and so on.[3]

Noun

bangiri class 9/10 (plural bangiri)

  1. bangle

References
  1. Njagi, James Kinyua. (2016). "Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change: A Case of English and Gĩkũyũ Contact", p. 5.
  2. Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 189. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
  3. 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.

Further reading
  • “bangiri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Swahili

Pronunciation
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Noun

bangiri (n class, plural bangiri)

  1. Alternative form of bangili
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