-erũ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kierru as an equivalent of English white in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
Adjective
-erũ
- white
- light-colored
Inflection
agreement of -erũ
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- werũ class 14
(Proverbs)
Related terms
(Verbs)
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 66–7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “-erũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 95. Oxford: Clarendon Press.