mũragũri
Kikuyu
Etymology
Derived from kũragũra (“to divine, to foresee”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mòɾàɣòɾì(ꜜ)/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
- (Kiambu)
- (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[1]
Noun
mũragũri class 1 (plural aragũri)
- diviner, soothsayer, fortune-teller
Related terms
(Nouns)
- ũragũri class 14
See also
- mũndũ mũgo
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.
- “mũragũri” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 366. Oxford: Clarendon Press.