mũnyago
Kikuyu
editPronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
editmũnyago class 3 (plural mĩnyago)
- long and quite heavy digging pole with the digging end pointed, used for first breaking up of land[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ “mũnyago” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 338. Oxford: Clarendon Press.