mbuĩ

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See also: mbui

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mbúì. Hinde (1904) records mbui as an equivalent of English grey hairs in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mbūe and Swahili mvi as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mbuĩ needs gender

  1. grey hairs[2]
    Hypernym: njuĩrĩ

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 28–29. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.
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