rĩu

See also: riu, ríu, rìu, and ri'u

Kikuyu

Etymology

rĩ- +‎ -u

Hinde (1904) records rēu as an equivalent of English now and to-day in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɾeu/

Adverb

rĩu

  1. now[2]

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43, 60–61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. “-u” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.