mwarimũ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili mwalimu, from Arabic مُعَلِّم‎ (muʿallim)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /moàɾímóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, and so on.
  • (Kiambu) As mũarimũ, Yukawa (1981) classified this term into a group, whose remaining members are kĩihũri and mũndũri,[1] which Yukawa (1985) merges with another group including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, and so on.[2]

Noun

mwarimũ class 1 (plural aarimũ)

  1. teacher
    Synonym: mũrutani

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, 75–123.
  2. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  • Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxx–xxxi. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 61. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
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