mũhikania

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòhìkàniá/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a trisyllabic stem, together with mũrĩmĩre, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including kĩng'ang'i, mũthũa, mũrũarũ, nyenje, icembe, and so on.^[1]^[2]

Noun

mũhikania class 1 (plural ahikania)

groom, bridegroom^[3]
Antonym: mũhiki^[3]

Related terms

(Nouns)

kĩhikanio class 7
ũhiki class 14

See also

mũthuuri

References

^ 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.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 18.

“mũhikania” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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