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Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
Noun
ngobo class 9/10 (plural ngobo)
- seed(s) of wild banana[1] (Ensete ventricosum); formerly used for making special beads for ceremonial purposes.[2]
- Hypernym: mbegũ
- Holonym: ihĩndu
References
- ^ “ngobo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 310. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, p. 1352. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN