ithanwa
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records ithanoa (pl. mathanoa) as an equivalent of English axe in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ì.ðá.nwáꜜ/, /ì.ðá.noáꜜ/
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “ithanwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 492. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.