ithanwa

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records ithanoa (pl. mathanoa) as an equivalent of English axe in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ì.ðá.nwáꜜ/, /ì.ðá.noáꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into njata class which includes njata, gĩkabu, gĩtara, karani, kĩihũri, etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.[3]

Noun

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ithanwa class 5 (plural mathanwa) (diminutive gathanwa)

  1. axe

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ ithanwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 492. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.