thwara

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili swala.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ðoáɾà(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

thwara class 9/10 (plural thwara)

  1. certain kinds of antelope
    1. Thomson's gazelle[1] (Eudorcas thomsonii)
    2. Grant's gazelle[1] (Nanger granti)
    3. impala[1] (Aepyceros melampus)
    4. reedbuck[1] (Redunca spp.)
    5. large duiker[1]

Synonyms
  • (Thomson's gazelle): ndaratari,[3] ngũri,[3] njuacui, gacuacui
  • (impala): kĩrong'a[4]
  • (reedbuck): bongwe

See also

References
  1. “thwara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 539. Oxford: Clarendon 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. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 453. →ISBN
  4. Leakey, op. cit., p. 452.
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