thũ
Kikuyu
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]thũ class 9/10 (plural thũ)
Derived terms
[edit](Proverbs)
- kaba thũ njũĩ kũrĩ thũ itoĩ
- thũ ndĩagaga mwenji
- thũ ndĩgũaga harĩa ĩikagio
- thũ yũĩo ti njũru ta mũrata wa maheni
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.
- ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach.
- “thũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.