gĩcanũri
Kikuyu
Etymology
From a verb gũcanũra.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɣèɕànóɾǐꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 10 with a trisyllabic stem, together with gĩting'ũri, ndigithũ, kĩĩgunyĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
See also
- kĩguti
References
- “gĩcanũri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 46. 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.
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