cũcũ
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See also: cucu
Kikuyu[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- The first ũ is pronounced long.[1][2]
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes nyamũ, gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), Kariũki (“man's name”), etc.[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, nyamũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun[edit]
cũcũ class 1 (plural cũcũ)[2] or cũcũ class 1 (plural macũcũ)[2]
- my grandmother, gramma
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 246, 262.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “cũcũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 77. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.