mũgũnda

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muganda as an equivalent of English garden in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba muunda and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mundani as its equivalents[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moɣonda/

Noun

mũgũnda class 3 (plural mĩgũnda)[2]

  1. cultivated field, garden
    mũgũnda wakwa/waku/wake/wao - my/thy/his (or her)/their field
    mĩgũnda yakwa/yaku/yake/iitũ/yanyu/yao - my/thy/his (or her)/our/your/their field
    mũgũndainĩ ũcio - on(to) the field

Synonyms

  • ng'ũndũ, gĩthaka

(Nouns)

  • kagũnda class 12

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ “mũgũnda” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 129. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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