Kikuyu

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mòɲɔ́ᵑɡɔ̀ɾɔ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.

Noun

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mũnyongoro class 3 (plural mĩnyongoro)

  1. centipede[4][5][6]
  2. millipede[7][8]
  3. earthworm[7][9]

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 66–67. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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, 75–123.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  4. ^ Alam, S.M. Shamsul (2007). Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya, p. 232. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  5. ^ Koigi wa Wamwere (2002). I Refuse to Die: My Journey For Freedom, p. 348. Seven Stories Press.
  6. ^ Muriuki, Godfrey (2012). "Cege wa Kibiru." In Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds.) Dictionary of African Biography, volume 2, pp. 49–50. Oxford University Press. →ISBN
  7. 7.0 7.1 nyongoro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 350. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  8. ^ Maina wa Mutonya (2007). "Joseph Kamaru: Contending Narrations of Kenya's Politics Through Music", p. 38. In Kimani Njogu and G. Oluoch-Olunya (eds.) Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya: Building Bridges, pp. 27–45. Nairobi: Twaweza Communications. →ISBN
  9. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ.
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