iburi

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Swahili mwavuli.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ìβùɾìꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ini, ngo, mũgeni, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.[2][3]

Noun

iburi class 5 (plural maburi)

umbrella

References

“iburi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 36. 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.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 58. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.

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