mũthuuri

• mũthuri[1]

From gũthuura (“to select, to elect”).[2]

Hinde (1904) records muthuri (pl. athuri) as an equivalent of English man (old) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[3]

• IPA^(key): /mòðùːɾìꜜ/

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.[4] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[5]

mũthuuri class 1 (plural athuuri)

1. married male person with children,[2] husband[6][5]

   mũthuuri wakwa - my husband[2]

   mũthuuriguo - thy husband[2]

   mũthuuriwe - her husband[2]

2. male person, man[6]
3. adult (man)[6]
4. elder[6]

   mũthuuri wa kĩama - a member of a traditional council of elders who have paid goats as fee[6]

• (husband): (concerning sex) mũtumia;[6] (concerning marriage) mwanake[6]
• (male person): mũtumia[6]
• (adult man): (before circumcision) kĩhĩĩ,[6] kahĩĩ;[6] (after circumscision) mwana[6]

(Phrases)

• athuuri a kanitha
• mũthuuri kĩhĩĩ

(Proverbs)

• mũthuuri ũtarĩ kahĩĩ nĩwe wĩriragĩra ngururu

(Nouns)

• ũthuuri class 14

• (husband, male person, adult man): mũrũme
• (husband): mũhikania

• Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu", pp. 3, 7, 9. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22.