ũũkĩ
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Kikuyu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records ūūki as an equivalent of English honey in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ũkĩ wa nzuki as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun[edit]
ũũkĩ class 14 (plural maũũkĩ)
Related terms[edit]
(Nouns)
- njũkĩ class 9/10
See also[edit]
- (mead) njohi
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ 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.
- “ũũkĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 550. Oxford: Clarendon Press.