mũthaitĩ

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Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Zaiti as the Kikuyu name for Ocotea usambarensis.[3]

Pronunciation

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.

Noun

mũthaitĩ class 3 (plural mĩthaitĩ)

  1. East African camphorwood (Kuloa usambarensis; syn. Ocotea usambarensis[4][2][1]) or Ocotea kenyensis;[1] wood of at least the former one was used for making partitioning walls (mĩhĩrĩgo), containers related to honey, etc.[4][2]
    Synonym: (for Ocotea kenyensis) mũthura

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 325. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 1 July 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1324. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  3. ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 “mũthaitĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 488. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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