mbegũ
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See also: mbegu
Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swahili mbegu.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
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Noun[edit]
mbegũ class 9/10 (plural mbegũ)
References[edit]
- ^ “mbegũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ 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.