njogu

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records njogu as an equivalent of English elephant in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba unzōō and Swahili ndovu etc. as its equivalents[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ndʑɔɣu/

Noun

njogu class 9/10 (plural njogu)

  1. elephant

Proverbs

  • gũtirĩ ũndũ njogu
  • njogu ndĩremagwo nĩ mũguongo wayo

References

  1. ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 20–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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