igoti
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) recordsigotti as an equivalent of Englishneck (nape of) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing alsoKambaikoti, andSwahiliukosi andkikosi as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term intomoondo class which includesmũndũ,huko,igego,inooro,irigũ,irũa,kĩbaata,kĩmũrĩ,kũgũrũ,mũciĩ,mũgeni,mũri,mwaki(“fire”),ndaka,ndigiri,njagathi,njogu,Mũrĩmi(“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together withndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group includingcindano,huko,iburi,igego,ini (pl.mani),inooro,irigũ,irũa,iturubarĩ (pl.maturubarĩ),kĩbaata,kĩmũrĩ,kũgũrũ,mũciĩ,mũgeni,mũgũrũki,mũmbirarũ,mũndũ,mũri,mũthuuri,mwaki(“fire”),mwario(“way of speaking”),mbogoro,nda,ndaka,ndigiri,ngo,njagathi,njogu,nyondo(“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]
Noun
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^Hinde, Hildegarde (1904).Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940).The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in2018 by Routledge).
- ^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.
- ^Muiru, David N. (2007).Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ,pp. 11, 34.
- “igoti” in Benson, T.G. (1964).Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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