mũhiki

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mohiki/

Noun

mũhiki class 1 (plural ahiki)

bride[1][2]
girlfriend, fiancée[2]
Ũyũ nĩ mũhiki wakwa. ― This is my girlfriend.[2]

Synonyms

(bride): mũhikio
(fiancée): mũrata[2]

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “bride”): mũhikania[2]
(antonym(s) of “girlfriend”): thũ[2]

Related terms

(Nouns)

kĩhikanio class 7
ũhiki class 14

References

Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. London: Oxford University Press. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach.

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