thukuru

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English school.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ðùkúɾù(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

thukuru class 14 (plural mathukuru) (or class 9/10, plural thukuru)

  1. school

References

  1. “cukuru” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 74. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  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, 75123.
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