mũndũ mũgo

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records mundu mugo as an equivalent of English medicine man in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mũndũ mũgo class 1 (plural andũ ago)

  1. a person who performs healing and divination practices; medicine man

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(Proverbs)

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References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • “mũgo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 115. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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