wabici

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English office.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a trisyllabic stem, together with mũrĩmĩre, and so on.

Noun[edit]

wabici class 9/10 (plural wabici) or wabici class 9 (plural mawabici)

  1. office[1]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 “wabici” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 559. Oxford: Clarendon Press.