ndutu

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ndutu as an equivalent of English insect and jigger in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba ndulu (“insect”) and Swahili mdudu (“insect”) (pl. wadudu) as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ⁿdútúꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ndutu class 9/10 (plural ndutu)

  1. chigoe, chigoe flea, chigger, sand flea, jigger[3][4]
    Synonym: ngage

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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, 75–123.
  3. Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 258.
  4. Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.
  • “ndutu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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