mũhũgũ

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Kikuyu[edit]

mũhũgũ

Etymology[edit]

Hutchins (1909) records m'Hùgu as the Kikuyu name for Ibean Sandal, or Brachylaena sp.[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.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun[edit]

mũhũgũ class 3 (plural mĩhũgũ)

  1. muhugu, muhuhu (Brachylaena huillensis),[3] syn. B. hutchinsii[4][3][5]); Kikuyu people have used this species for firewood,[4] poles, partitioning walls (mĩhĩrĩgo), etc.[3]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, pp. 12, 24. London: Darling & Son.
  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 3.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1312. →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 “mũhũgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 174. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  5. ^ Guide to the Trees in Kenya Useful for Agroforestry. (retrieved 30 March 2018)
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