mũgũnda

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Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records muganda as an equivalent of English garden in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba muunda and “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba mundani as its equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

mũgũnda class 3 (plural mĩgũnda)[4]

  1. cultivated field, garden
    mũgũnda wakwa/waku/wake/waomy/thy/his (or her)/their field
    mĩgũnda yakwa/yaku/yake/iitũ/yanyu/yaomy/thy/his (or her)/our/your/their field
    mũgũndainĩ ũcioon(to) the field

Synonyms

(Nouns)

See also

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ gũnda” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 129. Oxford: Clarendon Press.