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 [1]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. [2]Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231. [3]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.Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.