mũgeni
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɣɛ̀nìꜜ/
- 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, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[1] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ini, ngo, iburi, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.[2][3]
Noun
mũgeni class 1 (plural ageni)
- stranger
- guest
Derived terms
(Proverbs)
- ageni erĩ matirĩ mũtugĩre
- mũgeni amĩĩaga mbĩrĩra-inĩ
- mũgeni nĩ rũũĩ
See also
- mũgendi
References
- 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.
- Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
- “mũgeni” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.