mũcemanio
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Kikuyu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from gũcemania (“to meet, to join up with”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a trisyllabic stem, together with mũrĩmĩre, and so on.
- Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũberethi, mũthamaki, thabina, njogoo, Mũthũngũ, mũthanga, rĩithori (pl. maithori), kĩgokora, kĩroruha, ndagitari, and so on.[2][3]
Noun[edit]
mũcemanio class 3 (plural mĩcemanio)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũcemanio” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 52. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.