nthakame

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Kamba

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records nthakame of “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) and ndagami of “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) as equivalents of English blood, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu sakame as their equivalent.[1]

Noun

nthakame

  1. (Machakos) blood

References

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 8–9. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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