mũrarũ

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See also: mũraru

Kikuyu

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mò(ː)ɾáɾò(ꜜ)/
According to Yukawa (1981), the first ũ is pronounced long.
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mũrarũ class 3 (plural mĩrarũ)

  1. a sort of harmless[2] snake

Usage notes

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Although both Benson (1964) and Leakey (1977) translates this term as green grass snake, the species having that common name, namely Opheodrys vernalis (vernalis)[3] and O. aestivus[4] are both native to North America.[5][6]

The species native to Kenya, where Kikuyu people live and containing the words green or grass in their English common names are as follows:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. I, p. 460. →ISBN
  3. ^ Fergus, Charles (2000). Wildlife of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, p. 399. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. →ISBN
  4. ^ Swan, Lester A. (1964). Beneficial Insects, p. 117. New York: Harper & Row.
  5. ^ Hammerson, G.A., Lavin, P. & Mendoza Quijano, F. (2007). Opheodrys aestivus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63859A12722881. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63859A12722881.en. Downloaded on 23 March 2018.
  6. ^ Opheodrys vernalis (The Reptile Database). (retrieved 23 March 2018)
  7. 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 The Reptile Database. (retrieved 24 March 2018)
  8. 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 Spawls, S. (1978). "A checklist of the snakes of Kenya." Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and National Museum 31(167): 1–18.
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Chifundera, Kusamba (1990). "Snakes of Zaire and Their Bites." African Study Monographs 10(3): 137–57.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Rödel M.-O. & Spawls, S. (2010). Natriciteres olivacea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T176866A7320434. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T176866A7320434.en. Downloaded on 23 March 2018.
  11. 11.0 11.1 Kokwaro, John O. and Timothy Johns (1998). Luo Biological Dictionary, p. 259. Nairobi and Kampala and Dar es Salaam: East African Educational Publishers. →ISBN
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Rödel, M.-O. & Schmitz, A. (2010). Philothamnus irregularis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T177439A7436698. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T177439A7436698.en. Downloaded on 23 March 2018.
  • rarũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 372. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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