mwĩnũ
Kikuyu
mwĩnũ
Alternative forms
- mũĩnũ[1]
Etymology
Hutchins (1909) records Muvènu as the Kikuyu name for Cassia didymobotria (sic!).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moènǒ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
Noun
mwĩnũ class 3 (plural mĩĩnũ)
- peanut butter cassia, candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya[1], syn. Cassia didymobotrya[3][4]); traditionally used for purgative, etc.[3][1]
- Synonym: kĩĩnũ
References
- Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 6. TANG 6(3).
- Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
- “mwĩnũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 199. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1308. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN