mũkĩndũ

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Kikuyu

mĩkĩndũ

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mukindu as an equivalent of English palm (borassus) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ikindu and Swahili mkindu as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kĩgongona, njege, and so on.[2]

Noun

mũkĩndũ class 3 (plural mĩkĩndũ)

  1. Senegal date palm, wild date palm (Phoenix reclinata)[3][4]
    Synonym: mũthũthi

(Nouns)

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 44–45. 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. ^ “mũkĩndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 224. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, p. xlix. →ISBN
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