cokia

Kikuyu

Etymology

Causative form of gũcoka.

Hinde (1904) records kushokia as an equivalent of English return (give back) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba kusokia as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɕɔːkia/

Verb

cokia (infinitive gũcokia)

  1. to give back, to put back
  2. to reply, to answer

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • macokio class 6

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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