mũhiki

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mohiki/

Noun

mũhiki class 1 (plural ahiki)

  1. bride[1][2]
  2. girlfriend, fiancée[2]
    Ũyũ nĩ mũhiki wakwa. - This is my girlfriend.[2]

Synonyms

Antonyms

(Nouns)

  • kĩhikanio class 7
  • ũhiki class 14

References
  1. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  2. Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach.
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