mwere

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Pronunciation

Noun

mwere

  1. night

References

Kikuyu

mwere (#1, 3)

Etymology

From Common Bantu *ìbèdé.

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.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru)
As for Tonal Class, as mũere, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.

Noun

mwere class 3 (plural mĩere)

  1. pearl millet, bulrush millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
  2. finger millet (Eleusine coracana)
  3. field of bulrush millet or finger millet
    Gũtirĩ nyoni njega mwere-inĩ. - There is no good bird in the bulrush millet field.

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See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “mwere” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 93–94. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ Pennisetum glaucum. TICAH. (retrieved 5 April 2018)
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