mwĩnũ
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mwĩnũ
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
Etymology
Hutchins (1909) records Muvènu as the Kikuyu name for Cassia didymobotria (sic!).[2]
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
Noun
- peanut butter cassia, candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya,[1] syn. Cassia didymobotrya[3][4]); traditionally used as a purgative, etc.[3][1]
- Synonym: kĩĩnũ
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 6. TANG 6(3).
- ^ Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “mwĩnũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 199. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1308. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN