mũnyago
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɲáɣɔ̀(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[1]
Noun
mũnyago class 3 (plural mĩnyago)
- long and quite heavy digging pole with the digging end pointed, used for first breaking up of land[2]
See also
- mũro
References
- 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.
- “mũnyago” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 338. Oxford: Clarendon Press.