thwara

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Swahili swala.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

thwara class 9/10 (plural thwara)

  1. certain kinds of antelope
    1. Thomson's gazelle[1] (Eudorcas thomsonii)
    2. Grant's gazelle[1] (Nanger granti)
    3. impala[1] (Aepyceros melampus)
    4. reedbuck[1] (Redunca spp.)
    5. large duiker[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “thwara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. Oxford: Clarendon 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. →ISBN
  4. ^ Leakey, op. cit., p. 452.
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