mũgaa
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Kikuyu
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Etymology
Hinde (1904) records mugaa as an equivalent of English mimosa in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
mũgaa class 3 (plural mĩgaa)
- red acacia (Vachellia seyal, syn. Acacia stenocarpa,[3] A. seyal)
- (in the singular) rainless hot period at end of one growing season and before the long or short rains begin[3]
See also
- (Acacia spp.): mwĩkunya, mũrera, ruai, mũthandũkũ, mũthi
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “mũgaa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 97. Oxford: Clarendon Press.