mũtamaiyũ
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mũtamaiyũ
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Hutchins (1909) records m'Tamàyu as the Kikuyu name for Olea chrysophilla (sic!).[2]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2.
- (Kiambu)
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- Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group whose remaining member is mũthongorima.[3]
Noun
mũtamaiyũ class 3 (plural mĩtamaiyũ)
- wild olive,[4] brown olive[4] (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, syn. O. africana,[1][5] O. europaea subsp. africana,[4] O. chrysophylla)
- Synonym: mũtero
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 10. TANG 6(3).
- ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Dharani, Najma (2002). Field Guide to Common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa, p. 138. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. Rep. 2005. →ISBN
- ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1331. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
- “mũtamaiyũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.