mũgambo
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records mugaambo as an equivalent of English voice in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɣàᵐbɔ̀(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]
Noun
mũgambo class 3 (plural mĩgambo)
- voice
Proverbs
- mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ
Related terms
(Nouns)
- magambo class 6
See also
- ngemi, kiugo
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 64–65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- 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.
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 233.
- “mũgambo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.