kĩgomano
Kikuyu
Etymology
From a verb kũgoma (“to meet”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kèɣɔ̀mànɔ̀ꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩberethi, mbogoro, and so on.
- (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.[2]
Noun
kĩgomano class 7 (plural igomano)
- meeting[1]
- kĩgomano kĩa G7 ― a G7 meeting
- gathering place,[3] meeting place[1]
- junction of two rivers;[1] confluence, conflux
Synonyms
- (meeting (place); junction): mũgomano
- (meeting): mũcemanio, kĩũngano
Related terms
(Nouns)
- igomanĩro class 5 / magomanĩro class 6
See also
- (meeting; gathering place): gĩathĩ
- (junction): macemanio
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “kĩgomano” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 117. 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.
- ^ Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 231.