kĩohe

Kikuyu

Etymology

Derived from kuoha (“to tie”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /keɔhɛ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 5 with a disyllabic stem, together with njege, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including njege, rĩĩtwa, gĩcicio, icungwa, igongona[2] and later in 1985, these terms into another group including mũthũ, mũcibi, cibũ, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ihũa (pl. mahũa), gĩcanũri, ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ.[3]

Noun

kĩohe class 7 (plural ciohe)

parcel, package, bundle, bunch
kĩohe kĩa njuĩrĩ - a lock of hair[1]

See also

gĩkũnjo

References

“kĩohe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 357. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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.
Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

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