gĩkorora

Kikuyu

Etymology

From gũkorora (“to cough”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Kiambu, Murang'a, Nyeri) IPA(key): /ɣèkɔ̀ɾɔ́ɾà/[2][3]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[4]
  • (Ndia) IPA(key): /ɣèkɔ́ɾɔ́ɾà/
The same underlying pattern as that of mũthigari and nyamĩndigi.[3]

Noun

gĩkorora class 7 (plural ikorora)

  1. phlegm

(Nouns)

  • rũkorora class 11

References

  1. ↑ “gĩkorora” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 232. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ↑ Kagaya, Ryohei (1981). "An Analysis of Tonal Classification of Noun in the Kabete Dialect of Kikuyu." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 1–20.
  3. 1 2 Kagaya, Ryohei (1982). "Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns in Three Dialects: Murang'a, Nyeri and Ndia." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 24, 1–42.
  4. ↑ 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.
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