kĩrũũmi

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

  • kĩrũmi[1], kiruumi, kîrũũmi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kèɾòːmǐ/, /kèɾòːmìꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into mote class which includes mũtĩ, gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), gĩthaka, kĩnya, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrũthi, njagĩ, njohi, nyũmba, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on. Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[3] Clements (1984) classifies this term into “LH class” corresponding to Armstrong's mote class and – contrary to what he has actually sorted into – Benson's disyllabic 2, together with mũgate.[4]

Noun

kĩrũũmi class 7 (plural irũũmi)

  1. serval (cat)[1][5][6] (Leptailurus serval)
  2. cheetah[2][4][3] (Acinonyx jubatus)

Synonyms

See also

  • (serval): (melanistic one) thimba

References

  1. 1 2 Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 257.
  2. 1 2 Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. 1 2 Clements, George N. (1984). "Principles of tone assignment in Kikuyu." In Clements, G.N. and J.A. Goldsmith (eds.) Autosegmental studies in Bantu tone, pp. 281–339. Dordrecht: Mouton de Gruyter; Foris Publications. →ISBN
  5. 1 2 “kĩrũũmi” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 422. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  6. ↑ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 449. →ISBN
  7. ↑ Stevenson, Marion S. (1927). "Specimens of Kikuyu Proverbs," p. 241. In Festschrift Meinhof: Sprachwissenschaftliche und andere Studien, pp. 241–246. Hamburg: Kommissionverlag von L. Friederichsen & Co.
  8. ↑ Kingdon, Jonathan (1977). East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume III Part A (Carnivores), p. 396. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. →ISBN
  9. ↑ "cheetah" in Barlow, A. Ruffell (1975). English-Kikuyu dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  10. 1 2 Benson (1964), op. cit..
  11. ↑ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 9.
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