coka

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kushoka as an equivalent of English return in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba gujoka as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɕɔːka/

Verb

coka (infinitive gũcoka)

  1. to go back, to return

Derived terms

(Verbs)

(Names)

  • Njoki f

(Proverbs)

  • gũthiĩ gũtigiragia mũndũ acoke

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 50–51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  • “coka” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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