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mũiri

Kikuyu edit

 
mũiri

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From kũira (“to be black”)[1]

Hutchins (1909) records m'Wère as the Kikuyu name for Pygeum africanum.[2]

Pronunciation edit

The first i is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun edit

mũiri class 3 (plural mĩiri)

  1. red stinkwood, African cherry, African plum, African prune (Prunus africana,[3] syn. Pygeum africanum[1])[4]

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “mũiri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 189. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  3. ^ 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. 10.
  4. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1337. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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