rwara

Kikuyu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɾoàɾáꜜ/
(Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
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Noun

rwara class 11 (plural ndwara)

fingernail, nail[3]

Holonyms

njara
- kĩara/kaara

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dʊ́ada.

Verb

-rwâra (infinitive kurwâra, perfective -rwâye)

be sick, be ill

Derived terms

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