iguku
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records iguku as an equivalent of English hump in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.[2]
- (Kiambu)
Noun[edit]
iguku class 5 (plural maguku)
- hump (especially one on the back of a cow)
Derived terms[edit]
(Proverbs)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ “iguku” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.