kaingĩ

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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ka- +‎ -ingĩ (many, much)

Hinde (1904) records kaiingi as an equivalent of English often in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba muthenia miingi and Swahili mara nyingi as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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kaingĩ

  1. often, frequently[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 44–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ “-ingĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 188. Oxford: Clarendon Press.