Kikuyu

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Idiom

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ũndũ wa

  1. because of[1]
    Ĩkĩũrũomwoyo oona nyama nĩ ũndũ wa ũkoroku. - He [hyena (hiti)] lost his life as well as the meat because of his greediness.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ ũndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 301. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 303. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).