thaburia
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Swahili sufuria.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
Noun
thaburia class 9/10 (plural thaburia)
See also
References
- ^ “thaburia” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 486. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mugane, John M. (2015). The Story of Swahili, p. 55. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
- ^ Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu", pp. 7, 9. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.