ndangũrũ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ⁿdaᵑɡoɾo/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 14 with a trisyllabic stem.
  • (Kiambu)
    • (Limuru) IPA(key): /ⁿdàᵑɡóɾó/
As for Tonal Class,  Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bangiri, mũhĩrĩga, thakame, and so on.[1]

Noun

ndangũrũ class 9/10 (plural ndangũrũ)

  1. tapeworm[2][3]

See also

References
  1. 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.
  2. “ndangũrũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 289. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, p. 909. →ISBN
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