njogu
Kikuyu
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *ǹjògù. Hinde (1904) records njogu as an equivalent of English elephant in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba unzōō and Swahili ndovu etc. as its equivalents[1].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ᶮdʑɔɣu/
Noun
njogu class 9/10 (plural njogu)
- elephant
Proverbs
- gũtirĩ ũndũ njogu
- njogu ndĩremagwo nĩ mũguongo wayo
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 20–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.