mũthĩga

mũthĩga

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

• muthiga[1]

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Zìga as the Kikuyu name for Greenheart, or Walburgia ugandensis (sic!).[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mòðèɣáꜜ/

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

mũthĩga class 3 (plural mĩthĩga)

1. East African greenheart (Warburgia ugandensis)

Meronyms

• (fruit(s)) thĩga

References

1. Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 440. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN Accessed online 30 April 2018 via http://www.worldagroforestry.org/usefultrees
2. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, pp. 12, 24. London: Darling & Son.

• “mũthĩga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 520. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• 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. 7.
• Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1308. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN