mũthĩga

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Zìga as the Kikuyu name for Greenheart, or Walburgia ugandensis (sic!).[2]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

mũthĩga class 3 (plural mĩthĩga)

  1. East African greenheart (Warburgia ugandensis)

Meronyms

References

  1. ^ Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 440. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 30 April 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
  2. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, pp. 12, 24. London: Darling & Son.
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