mwarimũ
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swahili mwalimu, from Arabic مُعَلِّم (muʕallim).
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, and so on.
- (Kiambu) As mũarimũ, Yukawa (1981) classified this term into a group, whose remaining members are kĩihũri and mũndũri,[1] which Yukawa (1985) merges with another group including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, and so on.[2]
Noun[edit]
mwarimũ class 1 (plural aarimũ)
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxx–xxxi. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 61. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.