thakame

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records sakame as an equivalent of English blood in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba nthakame and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba ndagami as its equivalents[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ðàkámɛ́/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) As for Tonal Class,  Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bangiri, mũhĩrĩga, and so on.[2]

Noun

thakame class 9

  1. blood
    thakame yakwa - my blood

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • ithĩnjĩro rĩtiagaga thakame
  • mwĩrĩ ũrĩ thakame gũtirĩ ũtarwaraga
  • ngi ndĩhoyagwo thakame

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. 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.
  • “thakame” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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