Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

Jump to content
WiktionaryThe Free Dictionary
Search

rũrĩmĩ

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Kikuyu

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromProto-Bantu*dʊ̀dɪ́mì. Hinde (1904) recordsulimi orrurimi as an equivalent of Englishtongue in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then inKitui District) ofKambawimi andSwahiliulimi (pl.ndimi) as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term intombori class which includesmbũri,ikinya (pl.makinya),itimũ,kĩhaato,maguta,mbembe,mũgeka,mũrata,nyaga,ũhoro,riitho,riũa,Kamau(“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together withkĩhaato,mbembe,kiugo, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group includingbũrũri (pl.mabũrũri),ikara,ikinya,itimũ,kanitha (pl.makanitha),kiugo,kĩhaato,maguta,mũgeka,mũkonyo,mũrata,mwana,mbembe,mbũri,nyaga,riitho,riũa,ũhoro (pl.mohoro), and so on.[3]

Noun

[edit]

rũrĩmĩ class11 (pluralnĩmĩ)

  1. tongue[2][4]

Holonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^Hinde, Hildegarde (1904).Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑2.02.1Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940).The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." InJournal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  4. ^Muiru, David N. (2007).Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ,p. 34.
  • Benson, T.G. (1964).Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=rũrĩmĩ&oldid=79789062"
Categories:
Hidden categories:
[8]ページ先頭
©2009-2025 Movatter.jp