ũtukũ

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Kamba[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hinde (1904) records utuku “night, (“Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area)) day”, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu utuku (“day”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ũtukũ

  1. night

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19, 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.
  • Whiteley, W.H. and M.G. Muli (1962). Practical Introduction to Kamba, p. 163. London: Oxford University Press.

Kikuyu[edit]

FWOTD – 10 May 2022

Etymology[edit]

Hinde (1904) records utuku as an equivalent of English day in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba utuku as its equivalent.[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)

Noun[edit]

ũtukũ class 14 (plural matukũ)

  1. night[3][2]
  2. (in the plural) days[3]

Derived terms[edit]

(Proverbs)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “ũtukũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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