mũiko

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili mwiko.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòìkɔ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũiko class 3 (plural mĩiko)

  1. broad-ended[1] ladle[3]

See also

References

  1. iko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 185. 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, 75123.
  3. Mugane, John M. (2015). The Story of Swahili, p. 55. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
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