kĩgunyũ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kunyu and kigunyu as equivalents of English caterpillar in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kèɣùɲǒ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[2]

Noun

kĩgunyũ class 7 (plural igunyũ)

See also

mũnyongoro
(caterpillar): kĩgunyarĩrĩ

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 12–13. 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.
“kĩgunyũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxii–xxiii, 124. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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