mũgwanja

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muguanja as an equivalent of English seven in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba muonza and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba moanza as its equivalents.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòɣoàᶮd͡ʑáꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Numeral

mũgwanja

seven

References

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

“mũgwanja” 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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