ũtukũ

Kamba

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records utuku “night, (“Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area)) day”, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu utuku (“day”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

ũtukũ

  1. night

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19, 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.
  • Whiteley, W.H. and M.G. Muli (1962). Practical Introduction to Kamba, p. 163. London: Oxford University Press.

Kikuyu
FWOTD – 10 May 2022

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records utuku as an equivalent of English day in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba utuku as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /òtùkóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

ũtukũ class 14 (plural matukũ)

  1. night[3][2]
  2. (in the plural) days[3]

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • matukũ ti ma rũũru
  • mũheenania arĩ matukũ
  • mũhenio arĩ matukũ kũrĩ mũhenania
  • mũici wa mũthenya nĩ oĩo, na wa ũtukũ nĩ oĩo
  • nyũmba nini ĩciraga na ũtukũ

See also
  • (days): mĩthenya

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 18–19. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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.
  3. “ũtukũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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