mũrutani

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Derived from kũrutana (to teach someone).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mòɾùtànì(ꜜ)/
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.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mũrutani class 1 (plural arutani)

  1. teacher
    Synonym: mwarimũ

References

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  1. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  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.
  • rutani” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.