Wiktionary

kĩeha

See also: kiehâ

Kikuyu

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Alternative forms

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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, and so on.

Noun

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kĩeha class 7 (plural cieha)

  1. grief, sorrow, sadness, anxiety[3]
  2. Englerina woodfordioides[1] (syn. Loranthus woodfordioides[4]); parasitic plant found on trees, like mistletoe[4]

Derived terms

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(Proverbs)

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Njoroge, Grace N. and Rainer W. Bussmann (2006). "Traditional management of ear, nose and throat (ENT) diseases in Central Kenya." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2:54.
  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. ^ “kĩeha” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 86. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1325. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  5. ^ Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 8. TANG 6(3).

Further reading

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(Englerina woodfordioides):

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