hũnĩro
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hoːneɾɔ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 11 with a trisyllabic stem.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, as hũũnĩro, 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.[1]
See also
References
- 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.
- “hũnĩro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 177. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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