magathĩ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili makasi,[1][2] from Arabic مَقَص (maqaṣ).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /màɣáðè(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)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[3]

Noun

magathĩ class 6

scissors, shears

References

“magathĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 104. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Baldi, Sergio (2011) “Swahili: A Donor Language”, in Lingua Posnaniensis‎, volume 53, number 1, →DOI, page 16 of 7-24
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.

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