ndaka

== Kikuyu == === Etymology === Hinde (1904) records ndaka as an equivalent of English clay, dirt, mud in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ndakuju ndakuju (“dirt”) and tutandaka (“clay”) (“Nganyawa dialect”, spoken then in Kitui District) as its equivalents. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ⁿdàkà(ꜜ)/ As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem. (Kiambu) (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on. === Noun === ndaka class 9 mud Synonym: ndoro ==== See also ==== rĩũmba === References === “ndaka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.