mũgendi

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòɣɛ̀ⁿdìꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

mũgendi class 1 (plural agendi)

  1. traveller
    Synonym: mũthii

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References

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