nyeni
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records nyeni as an equivalent of English vegetables in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba nyunni as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nyeni class 9/10 (plural nyeni)
References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 62–63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.