ng'ondu
Kikuyu
Etymology
Ultimately from a Central Sudanic language, in which it originally meant "goat".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ŋɔ̀ⁿdúꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[1]
Noun
ng'ondu class 9/10 (plural ng'ondu)
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- mũgwata-ng'ondu class 3
- kamũgwata-ng'ondu class 12
(Proverbs)
- gũtirĩ ũrirũ ũtonwo na ũrĩa wonwo no ng'ondu
- mbaara ya aka ndĩrĩ ng'ondu
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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.
- ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 10.
- “ng'ondu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Ehret, Christopher (1968) “Sheep and Central Sudanic Peoples in Southern Africa”, in The Journal of African History, volume 9, number 2, pages 213–221