bũrũri
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Benson (1964) suspects relevance with Maasai olporror (“male age set”).[1]
Hinde (1904) records fururi as an equivalent of English country in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a trisyllabic stem, together with mũrĩmĩre, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun[edit]
bũrũri class 14 (plural mabũrũri)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “bũrũri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 40. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. 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.