nyamũ
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɲàmǒꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes gũtũ, guka, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), Kariũki (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 6 with a disyllabic stem, together with mũgwacĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including guka, ngwacĩ, kanyamũ, ruo, ũta, taata (“aunt”), gũtũ, mũtwe, and so on.[2][3]
Noun
nyamũ class 9/10 (plural nyamũ)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- kanyamũ class 12
- mũnyamũ class 3
(Names)
- Nyamũ
(Phrases)
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- “nyamũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 341. Oxford: Clarendon Press.