gĩthũũkũ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɣèðòːkó/

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)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[1]

Noun

gĩthũũkũ class 7

measles[2][3][4]
Synonym: mũthũũkũ[4]

Hypernym: mũrimũ[4]

References

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.
Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 258.
“gĩthũũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 538. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 888–905. →ISBN

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