mũnungo

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Kikuyu

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Etymology

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From kũnunga (to smell, to stink).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mònùᵑɡɔ̀ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mũnungo class 3 (plural mĩnungo)

  1. smell, especially bad one;[1] odor

See also

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 nungo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 286. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  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.