mbeũ

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

IPA^(key): /ᵐbɛ̀.ó/

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)

seed(s)
Synonym: mbegũ

Derived terms edit

(Proverbs)

kanua karĩa karĩire mbeũ noko koragia 'ngahanda kĩ?'

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.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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