nĩ ũndũ wa
Kikuyu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne oⁿdo wa/
Idiom
nĩ ũndũ wa
- because of[1]
- Ĩkĩũrũo nĩ mwoyo oona nyama nĩ ũndũ wa ũkoroku. - He [hyena (hiti)] lost his life as well as the meat because of his greediness.[2]
Synonyms
- tondũ wa
References
- “ũndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 301. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 303. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).