mũthandũkũ

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Kikuyu[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mòðàⁿdókóꜜ/
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[edit]

mũthandũkũ class 3 (plural mĩthandũkũ)

  1. black wattle, especially Acacia decurrens[1]
See also[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /mòðàⁿdókóꜜ/
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.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

mũthandũkũ class 3

  1. chicken pox[3]
    Hypernym: mũrimũ[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ thandũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 493. Oxford: Clarendon 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 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 888–905. →ISBN