nyamũ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɲàmǒꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), Kariũki (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, and so on.

Noun

nyamũ class 9/10 (plural nyamũ)

  1. animal, beast

Hyponyms

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • kanyamũ class 12
  • mũnyamũ class 3

(Names)

  • Nyamũ

(Phrases)

References
  1. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  2. 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.
  3. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  • “nyamũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 341. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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