kĩegetha

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kwegetha (“to hiccup”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /keɛ̀ɣɛ́ðà(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.

Noun

kĩegetha class 7 (plural ciegetha)

  1. hiccup[1][2]
    Synonym: rwegetha[2]
    Hypernym: ndwari[2]

(Nouns)

References
  1. “kĩegetho” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 905, 926. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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