mũnyongoro

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records minyongora as an equivalent of English worm in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòɲɔ́ᵑɡɔ̀ɾɔ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a trisyllabic stem, together with ngũngũni, batĩrĩ, and so on.

Noun

mũnyongoro class 3 (plural mĩnyongoro)

  1. centipede
  2. millipede
  3. earthworm

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 66–67. 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. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 “mũnyongoro” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 350. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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