kiugũ

See also: kĩũgũ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kiù.ɣǒ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

kiugũ class 7 (plural ciugũ)

  1. cattle enclosure, pen, corral

See also

References

  1. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75123.
  • “kiugũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxiixxiii, 540. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 9, 33.
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