mbeũ
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See also: mbeu
Kikuyu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records mbēu as an equivalent of English seeds in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba mbēū and Swahili mbegu as its equivalents.[1]
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]
mbeũ class 9/10 (plural mbeũ)
Derived terms[edit]
(Proverbs)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mbeũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.