Kariũki

See also: Kariuki

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũriũka (“to be resurrected”).[1]

Pronunciation
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes nyamũ, gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), etc.[4]

Proper noun

Kariũki

  1. A male given name; as a nickname,[5] given to a baby if his immediate older brother has been dead earlier.[1]

See also
  • (female counterpart) Njoki

References
  1. Wanjui, Joseph Barrage (2009). My Native Roots: A Family Story. Nairobi: University of Nairobi Press. →ISBN
  2. Clements, George N. (1984). "Principles of tone assignment in Kikuyu", p. 288. In Clements, G.N. and J.A. Goldsmith (eds.) Autosegmental studies in Bantu tone, pp. 281–339. Dordrecht: Mouton de Gruyter; Foris Publications. →ISBN
  3. Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 51. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
  4. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  5. Nganga, Nobuko and Peter S. Nganga (2013). "The Kinship System and Rule for Naming Children in Kikuyu People of Kenya", p. 32. 長崎大学教育学部社会科学論叢, 75, pp.25-33.
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