ũraihu

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũraiha (“to be long/tall/far”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oɾaihu/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.
  • (Kiambu)
    • (Limuru) IPA(key): /òɾàìhó/
As for Tonal Class, as ũraihũ, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[2]

Noun

ũraihu class 14 (plural moraihu)

  1. length[1]
  2. height[1]

(Nouns)

  • mũraihu class 1

(Adjectives)

See also

  • ũraya

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “ũraihu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 367. Oxford: Clarendon 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.
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