thara

Kikuyu

thara

The first a is pronounced long.^[1]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.^[2]

thara class 9/10 (plural thara)

↑ “thara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 495. 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.
↑ Kitalyi, Aichi and David M. Miano and Sandra Mwebaze and Charles Wambugu (2005). More forage, more milk: Forage production for small-scale zero grazing systems, p. 114. RELMA Technical Handbook No. 33. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA in ICRAF) / World Agroforestry Centre. ISBN 9966896740
1 2 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). "Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach", p. 32.

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