mũkoro

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòkɔ̀ɾɔ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

mũkoro class 3 (plural mĩkoro)

  1. (banana-)stem[1]
    mũkoro wa irigũ - banana stem

(Nouns)

  • ikoro class 5
  • ngoro class 9/10
  • nyagĩkoro class 9/10

References
  1. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • “mũkoro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 231. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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