-kuhĩ

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records -kuhi as an equivalent of English short in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba -kubi, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba -gube, and Swahili -fupi as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

Adjective

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-kuhĩ

  1. short[2]
    Antonyms: -raihu, -raya
    Mũthuuri ũyũ mũkuhĩ.This man is short.[3]
  2. near, close[2]
    Antonyms: -raihu, -raya

Inflection

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. 2.0 2.1 “-kuhĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 233. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 57.