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

IPA^(key): /ɲɛni/

Noun edit

nyeni class 9/10 (plural nyeni)

vegetables^[2]

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.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 62–63. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[mam2014-2] Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 31.

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