mũnyongoro
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records minyongora as an equivalent of English worm in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981:123) classified this term into a group whose remaining members are mũratina, gĩtarũrũ and thungura.[2] Yukawa (1985) rearranges this term and thungura into another group including gĩcigĩrĩra and ngũngũni.[3]
Noun[edit]
mũnyongoro class 3 (plural mĩnyongoro)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 66–67. 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- ^ Alam, S.M. Shamsul (2007). Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya, p. 232. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- ^ Koigi wa Wamwere (2002). I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom, p. 348. Seven Stories Press.
- ^ Muriuki, Godfrey (2012). "Cege wa Kibiru." In Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.) Dictionary of African Biography, volume 2, pp. 49–50. Oxford University Press. →ISBN
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 “mũnyongoro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 350. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Maina wa Mutonya (2007). "Joseph Kamaru: Contending Narrations of Kenya's Politics Through Music", p. 38. In Kimani Njogu and G. Oluoch-Olunya (eds.) Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya: Building Bridges, pp. 27–45. Nairobi: Twaweza Communications. →ISBN
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ.