mũndũ

See also: mundu

Kikuyu

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòⁿdò(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.^[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũri, ngo, and so on.

(Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ini, ngo, iburi, mũgeni, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, etc.^[2]^[3]
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Noun

mũndũ class 1 (plural andũ)^[4]

human being, man
person

Derived terms

(Nouns)

(Phrases)

mũndũ mũrũme (“a male”)
mũndũ mũgo (“medicine man”)
mũndũ wa nja (“woman”)

(Proverbs)

Related terms

(Nouns)

handũ class 16/kũndũ class 15b
kĩndũ class 7
ũndũ class 14

References

^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
^ 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.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
^ “mũndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 300. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[lea1940-1] Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

[yy1981-2] 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.

[yy1985-3] Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.

[4] “mũndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 300. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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