-nene

See also: Nene, nene, nenê, Néné, nēnē, and nënë

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records -nene as an equivalent of English great (and also large) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba -nene as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /nɛ̀nɛ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Adjective

-nene

  1. big, large[2]
    Antonym: -nini

Inflection
agreement of -nene
Singular Plural
Class 1, Class 2 mũnene anene
Class 3, Class 4 mũnene mĩnene
Class 5, Class 6 rĩnene manene
Class 7, Class 8 kĩnene nene
Class 9, Class 10 nene nene
Class 11, Class 10 rũnene nene
Class 12, Class 13 kanene tũnene
Class 14, Class 6 mũnene manene
Class 15, Class 6 kũnene manene
Class 16 hanene -

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mũnene class 1
  • ũnene class 14

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904) Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pages 28–9, 36–7
  2. “-nene” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 280. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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