mũtembei
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Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Swahili kutembea (“to walk”).[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun[edit]
mũtembei class 3 (plural mĩtembei)
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “ndembei” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 291. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Dawson, Marc Harry (1977). The History of Plague in Kenya: The Changing Epidemiology of the Disease Prior to 1920, p. 41. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- ^ 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.