mbeũ
See also: mbeu
Kikuyu
editEtymology
editHinde (1904) records mbēu as an equivalent of English seeds in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba mbēū and Swahili mbegu as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
Noun
editmbeũ class 9/10 (plural mbeũ)
Derived terms
edit(Proverbs)
References
edit- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 52–3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mbeũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.