rũgama
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records kurugamma as an equivalent of English stand in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- This ũ is pronounced long.[2]
Verb[edit]
rũgama (infinitive kũrũgama)
- to stand (still)
Derived terms[edit]
(Verbs)
- (Nouns)
- mũrũgamĩrĩri class 1
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “rũgama” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 416. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).