iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.
iBet uBet web content aggregator. Adding the entire web to your favor.



Link to original content: http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/mũhaara
mũhaara - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Wiktionary

mũhaara

Kikuyu

edit

Etymology

edit

From a verb kũhaara.[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

edit

mũhaara class 3 (plural mĩhaara)

  1. column (of ants, etc.)[1]
  2. trail of column of ants; used by them in their usual activity[1]

References

edit
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “mũhaara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 134. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  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.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=mũhaara&oldid=56584769"