thenge

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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From gũthenga (to move, to shift).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ðɛ̀ᵑɡɛ̀ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (fire), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (man's name), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (fire), mwario (way of speaking), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (breast(s)), and so on.[3]

Noun

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thenge class 9/10 (plural thenge)

  1. he-goat[1][4]
    thenge ciakwa - my he-goats
    Hypernym: mbũri

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See also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 “thenge” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 503. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.