kĩĩhuruta

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records kihurruta as an equivalent of English butterfly in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kèːhúɾùːtáꜜ/
The penultimate u is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with kĩgorogoru, kĩĩhutaatĩ, and so on.

Noun

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kĩĩhuruta class 7 (plural ciĩhuruta)

  1. butterfly
  2. moth

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ ĩhuruta” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 197. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. 3.0 3.1 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.
  4. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.