kĩĩruru

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Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From kũrura (to be green).[1]

Hinde (1904) records kirruru as an equivalent of English shadow in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kyu as its equivalent.[2]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu) IPA(key): /keèɾúɾúꜜ/

Noun

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kĩĩruru class 7 (plural ciĩruru)

  1. shadow; traditionally regarded as a place where one's own spirit sits during his or her life[1][4]
  2. shade

See also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 ĩruru” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 201. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–53. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1360. →ISBN