mũhehe

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Kikuyu

mũhehe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòhɛ̀ːhɛ̀(ꜜ)/
The second e is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

mũhehe class 3 (plural mĩhehe)

  1. giant lobelia (Lobelia giberroa);[2] its stem was used as a substitute for blowing horn[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “mũhehe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 146. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, pp. 1324–5. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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