huko

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Kikuyu

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Kikuyu Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ki

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (fire), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (man's name), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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huko class 9/10 (plural huko)

  1. mole rat[3][4]
  2. mole[1][5][6]

Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ “huko” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 168. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ Leaky, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 458. →ISBN
  5. ^ McGregor, Arthur Wallace (1905). A Grammar of the Kikuyu Language, p. 27. London: Richard Clay & Sons.
  6. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 33.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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huko f

  1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of huku

Anagrams

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Adjective

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huko

  1. Ku class inflected form of hiyo.

Adverb

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huko

  1. there

Verb

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huko

  1. second-person singular negative present of -wako (you are not (around there))