kiumia

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kiumia/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kĩgongona, njege, and so on.[1]

Noun

kiumia class 7 (plural ciumia)

  1. week

See also

References
  1. 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.
  • “kiumia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 542. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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