minji
Japanese
Romanization
minji
Kalabari
Noun
minji
References
- Charles E. W. Jenewari, Defaka (1983) (notes)
- Roger Blench, Comparative Ijoid Word List, 2007, page 1068
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mì.ᶮdʑì(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, 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.[1]
Noun
minji class 9/10 (plural minji)
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ “minji” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 260. Oxford: Clarendon Press.