ikunũ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records ikunu (pl. makunu) as an equivalent of English mushroom in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ekunnu as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ìkùnó/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[2]
Noun
ikunũ class 5 (plural makunũ)
- mushroom[3][2]
Related terms
(Verbs)
- gũkunũka
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 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.
- “ikunũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 236. Oxford: Clarendon Press.