mbogo
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Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mbògó. Hinde (1904) records mbogo as an equivalent of English buffalo in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mbo as its equivalent.
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into ŋgoko class which includes ngũkũ, hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), kĩng'ang'i, maitũ (“my mother”), mũkanda, mũthĩgi, nduka, ngingo, rũthanju, Wambũgũ (“man's name”), etc. Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
Noun
mbogo class 9/10 (plural mbogo)
Derived terms
(Nouns)
(Proper nouns)
- kĩrĩma Mbogo (lit. “a mountain of buffalo”) - Ol Donyo Sabuk
References
- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- ^ 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.
- “mbogo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 273. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 445. →ISBN
Swahili
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *mbògó.
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
mbogo (n class, plural mbogo)