rĩũmba
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From kũũmba (“to mould, to create”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- 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) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including rũrĩmĩ, maguta, mũrume, mbũri, itimũ, ikara, mũthia, mũiko, riũa, ndinoho, mbembe, kĩhaato, kĩheeo, ũhoro (pl. mohoro), rĩĩhia, and so on.[2][3]
Noun[edit]
rĩũmba class 5
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “rĩũmba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 553. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.