mũbĩngũ

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Kikuyu

mũbĩngũ

Alternative forms

Etymology

Swahili mpingo (“ebony; African blackwood”).[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mũbĩngũ class 3 (plural mĩbĩngũ)

  1. African blackwood (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũbĩngũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 30. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1332. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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