rũthingo
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records ruthingo as an equivalent of English wall in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾòðìᵑɡɔ̀(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.[2]
See also
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 64–65
- 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.
- Muiru, David N. (2007) Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pages 12, 34
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