mũtarakwa
Kikuyu
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Benson (1964) suspects that this term is related to Maasai ol-tarakwai (“Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.”). Compare also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Kalenjin (Markweeta tarakwet and tarokwa, Nandi tarakwet and turkwet, Pökoot tarokwa, Sabaot torokio, Tugen tarokwa).[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.
Noun
mũtarakwa class 3 (plural mĩtarakwa)
- African pencil cedar, East African cedar (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)[2][3]
- Mexican white cedar, Mexican cedar (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)[4]
- Synonym: mũthithinda
See also
- (Cupressus sp.): mũkarakaba
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 270. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 28 April 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
- ^ “mũtarakwa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 432. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1300. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
- ^ Maundu & Tengnäs, op. cit., p. 184.