ngũngũni

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Kamba[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.[1]

Noun[edit]

ngũngũni

  1. bedbug

References[edit]

  1. ^ Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 196. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.

Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *-kūŋgúnī.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with batĩrĩ, and so on.

Noun[edit]

ngũngũni class 9/10 (plural ngũngũni)

  1. bedbug[3]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 196. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
  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. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 32.
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