gĩtarũrũ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɣètáːɾòɾóꜜ/
This a is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) Yukawa (1981:123) classifies this term into a group, whose remaining members are mũnyongoro, mũratina and thungura.[2]

Noun

gĩtarũrũ class 7 (plural itarũrũ) (diminutive gatarũrũ)

  1. A winnowing tray twined with bark of mũgio (Triumfetta brachyceras, syn. T. macrophylla, T. ruwenzorensis), a kind of shrub,[1] used also as a server.[3]
    Gĩtarũrũ rũriĩ... - A tray on the interravine meadow? (riddle; the answer is Ikinya rĩa njogu, an elephant's footstep.)[3]

References
  1. “gĩtarũrũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. 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.
  3. "Gitaruru rurii" in Mori, Yuki (2015). 夜には、夜のけものがあるき 昼には、昼のできごとがゆく, p. 177. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Tosho Shuppan. →ISBN
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