ikunũ
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records ikunu (pl. makunu) as an equivalent of English mushroom in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ekunnu as its equivalent.[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.
- (Kiambu)
Noun[edit]
ikunũ class 5 (plural makunũ)
Related terms[edit]
(Verbs)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ^ “ikunũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 236. Oxford: Clarendon Press.