mwathimũro
Kikuyu
Etymology
From gwathimũra (“to sneeze”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moàðímòɾɔ̀ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a tetrasyllabic stem, together with gĩeterero, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) Yukawa (1981:121) classifies the term mũathimũro into a group whose only remaining member is mũthiũrũrũko.[2]
- (Nairobi) Yukawa (1985:193) classifies the term mũathimũro into a group including irigithathi etc.[3]
References
- “mwathimũro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 19. 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.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
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