kĩeha
Appearance
See also: kiehâ
Kikuyu
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
[edit]kĩeha class 7 (plural cieha)
- grief, sorrow, sadness, anxiety[3]
- Englerina woodfordioides[1] (syn. Loranthus woodfordioides[4]); parasitic plant found on trees, like mistletoe[4]
Derived terms
[edit]- kĩeha kĩa mũrangi - Engleromyces goetzei[5] (Xylariaceae) (lit. kĩeha of a bamboo)
(Proverbs)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Njoroge, Grace N. and Rainer W. Bussmann (2006). "Traditional management of ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases in Central Kenya." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:54.
- ^ 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.
- ^ “kĩeha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1325. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
- ^ Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 8. TANG 6(3).
Further reading
[edit](Englerina woodfordioides):
- Image at PhytoImages.siu.edu (inflorescence)
- Image at PhytoImages.siu.edu (fruit)