ng'aragu
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records ngaragu as an equivalent of English famine in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgongona, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun[edit]
ng'aragu class 9
Derived terms[edit]
(Proverbs)
- ng'aragu ndĩhoyagwo ũhoro
- ng'aragu ya mũndũ ũngĩ ndĩgiria mũndũ ũngĩ akome
- ng'aragu ya mũthenya ũmwe nĩĩiyagĩrũo
- ũthayo na ng'aragu nĩ mũndũ na mũrũ wa nyina
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 22–23. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
- “ng'aragu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.