thũ

See also: thu, thụ, thú, thủ, thư, and thứ

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ðǒꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.[1]

Noun

thũ class 9/10 (plural thũ)

enemy
Synonym: muku

Antonym: mũrata[2]

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

kaba thũ njũĩ kũrĩ thũ itoĩ
thũ ndĩagaga mwenji
thũ ndĩgũaga harĩa ĩikagio
thũ yũĩo ti njũru ta mũrata wa maheni

References

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.
Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach.

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

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