mũnyago

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Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòɲáɣɔ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũnyago class 3 (plural mĩnyago)

  1. long and quite heavy digging pole with the digging end pointed, used for first breaking up of land[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ nyago” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 338. Oxford: Clarendon Press.