rũhĩ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ruhi as an equivalent of English hand in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾohe/

Noun

rũhĩ class 11 (plural hĩ)

  1. palm of the hand[2]
  2. hand[3]
    Synonym: njara

Holonyms
  • (palm of the hand): guoko

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 11.
  3. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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