mũhũri

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Kikuyu

mũhũri (Oncoba spinosa)
mũhũri (Oncoba spinosa)

Pronunciation

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.

Noun

mũhũri class 3 (plural mĩhũri)

  1. shrub or tree of the genus Oncoba
    1. Oncoba routledgei[1]
    2. fried egg tree, snuff-box tree (Oncoba spinosa)[2]

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ “mũhũri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 179. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1322. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  3. ^ Beentje, H.J. (1994). Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. Nairobi, Kenya: National Museum of Kenya. →ISBN
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