mũkũnga
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records mumkunga as an equivalent of English eel in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mukanga and Swahili kungu (pl. makungu) as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.[2]
Noun
editmũkũnga class 3 (plural mĩkũnga)
Usage notes
editIn Kenya, where Kikuyu people live, at least four species of the family Anguillidae are living: Indian mottled eel (Anguilla bengalensis), shortfin eel (Anguilla bicolor), marbled eel (Anguilla marmorata) and African longfin eel (Anguilla mossambica).[4]
Related terms
edit(Nouns)
- mũkũnga-mbura class 3
References
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 20–1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ^ “mũkũnga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 245. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2018-1. <http://www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 September 2018.