mũthaitĩ
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- muthaiti,[1] mũthaiti[2]
Etymology
Hutchins (1909) records m'Zaiti as the Kikuyu name for Ocotea usambarensis.[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moðaite/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4.
Noun
mũthaitĩ class 3 (plural mĩthaitĩ)
- East African camphorwood (Ocotea usambarensis)[4][2][1] or Ocotea kenyensis[1]; wood of at least the former one was used for making partitioning walls (mĩhĩrĩgo), containers related to honey, etc.[4][2]
References
- Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 325. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 1 July 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
- Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1324. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
- Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
- “mũthaitĩ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 488. Oxford: Clarendon Press.