mũtembei

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Kikuyu

Etymology

From Swahili kutembea (“to walk”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mò.tɛ̀.ᵐbɛ́.ì(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a trisyllabic stem, together with kĩgokora, mbarĩki, thimiti, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

mũtembei class 3 (plural mĩtembei)

  1. house rat[1]
    1. black rat[1] (Rattus rattus)
    2. Norwegian rat[1] (Rattus norvegicus)

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “ndembei” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 291. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. ^ Dawson, Marc Harry (1977). The History of Plague in Kenya: The Changing Epidemiology of the Disease Prior to 1920, p. 41. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  3. ^ 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.
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