ikia

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Kikuyu[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ikia (infinitive gũikia)

  1. to put in, to throw, to dip
    Ndaikia mbugi manjarara... - And I have thrown a bell down on a rocky surface? (riddle; the answer is Mũiti wa njahĩ ikũmbĩ (one who puts lablab beans into a store).)[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ “njarara2” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).