mwario
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- mũario
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mwà(ː)ɾiɔ̀ꜜ/, /moàɾiɔ̀ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
- (Nyeri) Ford (1975:61) claims that the a is pronounced long.[3]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- mwarĩrie class 3
References
- “mwario” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 16. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
- Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu." In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
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