kĩĩhuruta

Kikuyu

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

The penultimate u is pronounced long.[2]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩgorogoru, kĩĩhutaatĩ, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including njegeeke, itarara, gĩtumumu in common.[3][4]

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, ngũngũni, and so on.[3]

kĩĩhuruta class 7 (plural ciĩhuruta)

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
“kĩĩhuruta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 197. 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.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

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