mũndũ mũgo
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records mundu mugo as an equivalent of English medicine man in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mũndũ mũgo class 1 (plural andũ ago)
- a person who performs healing and divination practices; medicine man
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
- mũndũ mũgo ndarĩ ngumo itũũra rĩake
- mũndũ mũgo nderagũragĩra
- mũndũ mũgo wa gwĩthokia ndarĩ rũ(ũ)a
- mũndũ mũgo wa itũũra ndagaga
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mũgo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 115. Oxford: Clarendon Press.