ũka

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kuka as an equivalent of English come in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuka as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oka/

Verb

ũka (infinitive gũũka)

  1. to come

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 14–15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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