itina

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Hinde (1904) records itina as an equivalent of English buttocks in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ìtìnáꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]

Noun

itina class 5 (plural matina)

buttocks
Synonyms: ndina, njikarĩro

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

indo ciene inoragia mũndũ itina rĩmwe

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ìtínáꜜ/

Noun

itina class 8

plural of gĩtina

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.

“itina” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 449. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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