mũhu

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See also: muhu, Muhu, mǔhǔ, and mʉhʉ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muhu as an equivalent of English ashes in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mūū and Swahili ivu (pl. maivu) as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũhu class 3 (plural mĩhu)

  1. ash(es) (of wood)[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  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. ^ “mũhu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 166. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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