korora
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records okorrora as an equivalent of English cough in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba gukoa and Swahili kukohoa as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
korora (infinitive gũkorora)
- to cough
Derived terms
(Nouns)
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).