mũhũgũ
Kikuyu
Etymology
Hutchins (1909) records m'Hùgu as the Kikuyu name for Ibean Sandal, or Brachylaena sp.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòhòɣó/
- 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
mũhũgũ class 3 (plural mĩhũgũ)
- muhugu, muhuhu (Brachylaena huillensis,[3] syn. B. hutchinsii[4][3][5]); Kikuyu people have used this species for firewood,[4] poles, partitioning walls (mĩhĩrĩgo), etc.[3]
Synonyms
- (Northern) mũhũgũhũgũ[4]
References
- Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, pp. 12, 24. London: Darling & Son.
- 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.
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1312. →ISBN
- “mũhũgũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 174. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Guide to the Trees in Kenya Useful for Agroforestry. (retrieved 30 March 2018)