huko
See also: Huko
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hùkɔ̀ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] 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, 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]
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- ngoro itiumanĩire/itiumanĩrĩire ta marima ma huko
References
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.
- “huko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 168. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leaky, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 458. →ISBN
- McGregor, Arthur Wallace (1905). A Grammar of the Kikuyu Language, p. 27. London: Richard Clay & Sons.
- Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 33.
Swahili
Pronunciation
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