mũtwe
Kikuyu edit
Etymology edit
Hinde (1904) records mtue as an equivalent of English head in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mtue and Swahili kitwa (pl. vitwa) as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mũtwe class 3 (plural mĩtwe)
Derived terms edit
(Proverbs)
- mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua
- mũtwe wa mũndũ ũmwe nĩ ithino
- nda ti mũtwe
- ndegwa nyinyi ĩhaicaga ng'ombe na mũtwe
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mũtwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 484. Oxford: Clarendon Press.