mũtongu

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Kikuyu[edit]

mũtongu
mũtongu na ndongu

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.

Noun[edit]

mũtongu class 3 (plural mĩtongu)

  1. apple of Sodom, Sodom's apple, bitter tomato (Solanum incanum[1][2] and S. campylacanthum[3][4])

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 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. 11.
  2. ^ Kays, Stanley J. (2011). Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon, p. 205. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-720-2 →ISBN
  3. ^ “mũtongu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 459. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ Schmelzer, G.H. and A. Gurib-Fakim (eds.) (2008). Medicinal Plants 1, p. 525. Wageningen, Netherlands: PROTA Foundation.
  5. ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 32.
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