Kikuyu edit

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mòðàⁿdókóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.

Noun edit

mũthandũkũ class 3 (plural mĩthandũkũ)

  1. black wattle, especially Acacia decurrens[1]
See also edit

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mòðàⁿdókóꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩng'aurũ, mbahaca, mwarimũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun edit

mũthandũkũ class 3

  1. chicken pox[3]
    Hypernym: mũrimũ[3]

References edit

  1. ^ thandũkũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 493. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, pp. 888–905. →ISBN