thukuru
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Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English school.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]thukuru class 14 (plural mathukuru) (or class 9/10, plural thukuru)
References
[edit]- ^ “cukuru” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 74. Oxford: Clarendon 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.