mwere

Dumbea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moerɛ/

Noun

mwere

1. night

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDuᵐbea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Shintani, T.L.A. & Païta, Y. (1990) Dictionnaire de la langue de Païta, Nouméa: Sociéte d'etudes historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cited in: "Drubea" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Kikuyu

mwere (#1, 3)

Etymology

From Common Bantu *ìbèdé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moɛ̀ɾɛ̌/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru)

As for Tonal Class, as mũere, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.

Noun

mwere class 3 (plural mĩere)

1. pearl millet, bulrush millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
2. finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
3. field of bulrush millet or finger millet

   Gũtirĩ nyoni njega mwere-inĩ. - There is no good bird in the bulrush millet field.

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• mbura ya mwere

(Proverbs)

• mwere mwega ũmenyagwo na ngetho

See also

• mũgĩmbĩ