hũngũ

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Hinde (1904) records hungu as an equivalent of English kite in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mbuungu as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

hũngũ class 9/10 (plural hũngũ)

  1. certain species of bird of prey
    1. kite[3][4]
    2. hawk[3][5]
    3. vulture[6]

Derived terms[edit]

(Proverbs)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “hũngũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 177. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 465. →ISBN
  5. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.
  6. ^ Barra, G. (1960). 1,000 Kikuyu proverbs: with translations and English equivalents.
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