ikũmbĩ

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ìkòᵐbè(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ikũmbĩ class 5 (plural makũmbĩ)

  1. granary[3]
Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • cia thũgũrĩ itiyũraga ikũmbĩ
  • cia ũhooyo itiyũragia ikũmbĩ
  • ũthuuro mwega ndũiyũraga ikũmbĩ

Etymology 2

From the verb gũkũmba.[3]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ìkòᵐbè(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /ìkùᵐbè(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, as ikumbĩ, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]

Noun

ikũmbĩ class 5 (plural makũmbĩ)

  1. wave[3]

References
  1. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  2. 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.
  3. “ikũmbĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 244. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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