mũtongu
Kikuyu
mũtongu
mũtongu na ndongu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mò.tɔ̀.ᵑɡú/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.
Noun
mũtongu class 3 (plural mĩtongu)
- apple of Sodom, Sodom's apple, bitter tomato (Solanum incanum[1][2] and S. campylacanthum[3][4])
Hypernyms
- ria[5]
Meronyms
- (leaf) itongu; (fruit) ndongu
See also
- nyanya, mũtũra
References
- 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. 11.
- Kays, Stanley J. (2011). Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon, p. 205. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-720-2 →ISBN
- “mũtongu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 459. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Schmelzer, G.H. and A. Gurib-Fakim (eds.) (2008). Medicinal Plants 1, p. 525. Wageningen, Netherlands: PROTA Foundation.
- Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 32.
- Solanum+incanum at The Plant List
- Solanum+campylacanthum at The Plant List