kĩng'ang'i

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kingangi as an equivalent of English crocodile in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kinyangi as its equivalent.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Nyeri) IPA^(key): /kèŋàŋí/^[2]

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), maitũ (“my mother”), mbogo, mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc.^[3] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.^[4]

• (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including mũthũa, mũrũarũ, nyenje, icembe, mũhikania, and so on.^[5][6]

Noun

kĩng'ang'i class 7 (plural ing'ang'i)

1. crocodile

References

1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 16–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. Ford, K. C. (1975). "The Tones of Nouns in Kikuyu", p. 54. In Studies in African Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 49–64.
3. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
4. Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. xxii–xxiii. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
5. 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.
6. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.