kĩronda

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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From Common Bantu *kɪ̀dòndà.

Hinde (1904) records kironda as an equivalent of English sore and ulcer in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba dondee (ulcer), and Swahili donda (sore) (pl. madonda) and donda ndugu (ulcer) as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kèɾɔ̀ⁿdà(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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kĩronda class 7 (plural ironda)

  1. sore, ulcer;[3] especially veldt sore,[4] Barcoo rot, (diphtheric) desert sore, septic sore

Hypernyms

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Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 54–55. 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. ^ ronda” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 404. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903 v. II, p. 924. →ISBN