ihũa

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ìhó(w)áꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
  • (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into groups including mũthũ, mũcibi, gĩkabũ (pl. ikabũ), njata, mũthee, ithanwa, kang'aurũ, mwatũka, ndarathini (“a kind of fruit”), Gĩgĩkũyũ, etc. in common.[1][2]

Noun

ihũa class 5 (plural mahũa)

  1. flower

References

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  • “ihũa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 173. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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