mũthandũkũ

Kikuyu

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòðàndókóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.

Noun

mũthandũkũ class 3 (plural mĩthandũkũ)

  1. black wattle, especially Acacia decurrens[1]
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòðàndókóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũthandũkũ class 3

  1. chicken pox[3]
    Hypernym: mũrimũ[3]

References

  1. ↑ “mũthandũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 493. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 888–905. →ISBN
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