mũndũ mũgo
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records mundu mugo as an equivalent of English medicine man in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mũndũ mũgo class 1 (plural andũ ago)
- a person who performs healing and divination practices; medicine man
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit](Proverbs)
- mũndũ mũgo ndarĩ ngumo itũũra rĩake
- mũndũ mũgo nderagũragĩra
- mũndũ mũgo wa gwĩthokia ndarĩ rũ(ũ)a
- mũndũ mũgo wa itũũra ndagaga
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.