rũnyarĩrĩ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records runyarrire “foot” and runyadide “ankle” in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾoɲaːɾeɾe/
This a is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 11 with a trisyllabic stem.
  • (Kiambu) IPA(key): /ɾòɲàːɾèɾèꜜ/
Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies the term rũnyaarĩrĩ into a group including ini, ngo, iburi, mũgeni, mũndũ (pl. andũ), inooro, mwandĩko, and so on.[3][4]

Noun

rũnyarĩrĩ class 11 (plural nyarĩrĩ)

  1. instep
  2. human foot

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 2–3, 24–25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. “rũnyarĩrĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 343. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. 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.
  4. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
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