ndũũma
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- ndũma
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ⁿdóːmǎꜜ/
- As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 8 with a disyllabic stem, together with matũũra, thani, kiuga, and so on.
Noun
ndũũma class 9/10 (plural ndũũma)
- (old) cocoyam, taro (Colocasia esculenta)[1]
Related terms
(Nouns)
- itũma class 5
- mũtũma class 3
References
- Kays, Stanley J. (2011). Cultivated Vegetables of the World: A Multilingual Onomasticon, pp. 35, 36, 470. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. →ISBN
- “mũtũma” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 478. Oxford: Clarendon Press.