njegeeke

Kikuyu

Hinde (1904) records enjegeki as an equivalent of English armpit in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[2]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including kĩĩhuruta, itarara, gĩtumumu in common.[3][4]

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcigĩrĩra, gĩtumumu, mindira, ngũngũni, and so on.[3]

njegeeke class 9/10 (plural njegeeke)

Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 33.
Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.

“njegeeke” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 332. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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