thutha
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ðùːðàꜜ/
- This u is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[2]
Noun
thutha class 14[1]
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- mbere nĩ gĩkeno thutha nĩ maithori
- mbere no mbere thutha no mũgiano
- tene nĩ tene thutha nĩ mũgiano
- thutha wa arũme nduoyagwo ruoya
Related terms
(Nouns)
- gathutha class 12
References
- 1 2 “thutha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 531. 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.
Xhosa
Verb
-thutha?
- (transitive) to cart
Inflection
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