mbũmbũĩ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records mbumbui as an equivalent of English spider in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbuabui and Swahili buibui as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᵐbòᵐbòèꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, 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 11.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, 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]
Derived terms
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 54–55
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.
- “mbũmbũĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 276. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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