gĩkorora

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gũkorora (to cough).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Kiambu, Murang'a, Nyeri) IPA(key): /ɣèkɔ̀ɾɔ́ɾà/[2][3]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[4]
  • (Ndia) IPA(key): /ɣèkɔ́ɾɔ́ɾà/
The same underlying pattern as that of mũthigari and nyamĩndigi.[3]

Noun[edit]

gĩkorora class 7 (plural ikorora)

  1. phlegm

Related terms[edit]

(Nouns)

References[edit]

  1. ^ korora” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 232. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 1–20.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kagaya, Ryohei (1982). "Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns in Three Dialects: Murang'a, Nyeri and Ndia." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 24, 1–42.
  4. ^ 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.