kĩũgũ
See also: kiugũ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /keòɣò(ꜜ)/
- 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.[1]
Noun
kĩũgũ class 7 (plural ciũgũ)
- any being or animal with a congenital abnormality[2]
- (obsolete) albino[2]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- ũũgũ class 14
See also
References
- 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.
- “kĩũgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 549. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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