mbiti
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Kamba[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Hinde (1904) records mbiti as an equivalent of English hyæna, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu hiti, and Swahili fisi and pisi as their equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mbiti (plural mbiti)
References[edit]
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 32–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1982). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kamba Nouns", pp. 94, 104. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 23, pp. 91–118.