mũkĩndũ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mukindu as an equivalent of English palm (borassus) in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba ikindu and Swahili mkindu as its equivalents.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mòkèⁿdóꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

(Kiambu)

As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including kĩgongona, njege, and so on.^[2]

Noun

mũkĩndũ class 3 (plural mĩkĩndũ)

Senegal date palm, wild date palm (Phoenix reclinata)^[3]^[4]
Synonym: mũthũthi

Related terms

(Nouns)

ikĩndũ class 5, makĩndũ class 6

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 44–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
^ “mũkĩndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 224. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, p. xlix. →ISBN

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 44–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[yy1981-2] Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.

[3] “mũkĩndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 224. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[lsbl-4] Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. II, p. xlix. →ISBN

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