njũi
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Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- This ũ is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
njũi class 9/10 (plural njũi)
See also
References
- ^ “njũi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxiv–xxv, 336. 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.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 449. →ISBN