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单词 mũiri
释义

mũiri

Kikuyu

mũiri

Alternative forms

  • muiri

Etymology

From kũira (to be black)[1]

Hutchins (1909) records m'Wère as the Kikuyu name for Pygeum africanum.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mòìːɾíꜜ/
The first i is pronounced long.[1]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

mũiri class 3 (plural mĩiri)

  1. red stinkwood, African cherry, African plum, African prune (Prunus africana,[3] syn. Pygeum africanum[1])[4]

References

  1. iri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 189. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  3. 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. 10.
  4. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1337. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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