mũhũgũ

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Kikuyu

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mũhũgũ

Etymology

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Hutchins (1909) records m'Hùgu as the Kikuyu name for Ibean Sandal, or Brachylaena sp.[1]

Pronunciation

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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.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mũhũgũ class 3 (plural mĩhũgũ)

  1. muhugu, muhuhu (Brachylaena huillensis),[3] syn. B. hutchinsii[4][3][5]); Kikuyu people have used this species for firewood,[4] poles, partitioning walls (mĩhĩrĩgo), etc.[3]

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, pp. 12, 24. London: Darling & Son.
  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 3.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1312. →ISBN
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 hũgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 174. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. ^ Guide to the Trees in Kenya Useful for Agroforestry. (retrieved 30 March 2018)