mũhikania

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòhìkàniá/

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

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including kĩng'ang'i, mũthũa, mũrũarũ, nyenje, icembe, and so on.[1][2]

Noun

mũhikania class 1 (plural ahikania)

groom[3]
Antonym: mũhiki[3]

Related terms

(Nouns)

kĩhikanio class 7
ũhiki class 14

See also

mũthuuri

References

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.
Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 18.

“mũhikania” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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