mũtongoria

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gũtongoria (“to lead”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mòtɔ̀ᵑɡɔ́ɾiá/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩhengere, kĩariũngũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups, which include thakame in common.[2][3]

Noun[edit]

mũtongoria class 1 (plural atongoria)

  1. leader

Related terms[edit]

(Nouns)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ “mũtongoria” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 459. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
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