korora

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records okorrora as an equivalent of English cough in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba gukoa and Swahili kukohoa as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔɾɔɾa/

Verb

korora (infinitive gũkorora)

  1. to cough

Derived terms

(Nouns)

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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