nduka

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili duka.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ⁿdùká/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[3]

Noun

nduka class 9/10 (plural nduka) or (plural matuka)[1]

  1. shop

See also

References
  1. “nduka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 298. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. 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.

Mato Grosso Arára

Noun

nduka

  1. louse

References
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