mũgumo

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Kikuyu

mũgumo (F. thonningii)

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Gumu as the Kikuyu name for Ficus sp..[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũgumo class 3 (plural mĩgumo)

  1. Any of several species of the genus Ficus; regarded as sacred by Kikuyu people[3][4] and decoction of its bark with milk is used for treating dysentery[3]
    1. wild fig,[5] stranger fig[5] (Ficus thonningii)[5]
    2. bark cloth fig (Ficus natalensis)[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 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 “mũgumo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 122. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ Napoli, Donna Jo (2010). Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya. Simon & Schuster.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dharani, Najma (2002). Field Guide to Common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa, p. 113. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. Rep. 2005. →ISBN
  6. ^ Dharani, op. cit., p. 110.
  7. ^ A Guide to Trees in Kenya Useful for Agroforestry. (Retrieved 11 December 2017)
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