igua
Appearance
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records kwiwa as an equivalent of English hear in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kwewa as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]igua (infinitive kũigua)
Derived terms
[edit](Verbs)
(Nouns)
- ũiguano class 14
- mũiguithania class 1
(Proverbs)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- “igua” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.