rĩithori

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-yí̧cōdī̧.[1]

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɾèìðɔ́ɾì(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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rĩithori class 5 (plural maithori)

  1. teardrop, tear

Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 187. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
  2. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 58–59. 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.
  • ithori” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 192. Oxford: Clarendon Press.