ngũha

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Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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ngũha class 9/10 (plural ngũha)

  1. tick that infests cattle

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Nijhof A.M., Guglielmone A.A. & Horak I.G. (2018). TicksBase (version 5.6, Jun 2005). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2018. Digital resource at https://web.archive.org/web/20200513162655/http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. →ISSN. (retrieved 13 February 2018)
  • “ngũha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 317. Oxford: Clarendon Press.