ũcũrũ

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Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, kĩrũũmi, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
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Noun

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ũcũrũ class 14

  1. gruel, porridge

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Kibue, Michael N. (1996). "A Farmer's View." In Joske Bunders and Bertus Haverkort and Wim Hiemstra (eds.), Biotechnology; Building on Farmers' Knowledge, pp. 15–21. London: Macmillan Education. →ISBN
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  • ũcũrũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.