guka
Kikuyu
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
edit- This u is pronounced long.[1]
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ɲamo class which includes nyamũ, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũgwacĩ, mũtwe, rũkũ, ũta, taata (“my aunt”), Kariũki (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ngwacĩ, nyamũ, kanyamũ, ruo, ũta, taata (“aunt”), gũtũ, mũtwe, and so on.[3][4]
Noun
editguka class 1
- my grandfather
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ “guka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 122. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 262.
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editgȕka f (Cyrillic spelling гу̏ка)
Further reading
edit- “guka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024