mũhu
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records muhu as an equivalent of English ashes in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mūū and Swahili ivu (pl. maivu) as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòhǔꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a monosyllabic stem, together with rũkũ, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including baba, guka, gũtũ, mũguĩ, mũtwe, nyamũ, ruo, rũhĩ (pl. hĩ), rũkũ (pl. ngũ), taata (“my aunt”), ũta (pl. mota), ũthiũ (pl. mothiũ), and so on.[2]
Noun
mũhu class 3 (plural mĩhu)
- ash(es) (of wood)[3]
See also
- thiota
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 4–5. 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.
- “mũhu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 166. Oxford: Clarendon Press.