mũtwe
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Hinde (1904) records mtue as an equivalent of English head in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mtue and Swahili kitwa (pl. vitwa) as its equivalents.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mũtwe class 3 (plural mĩtwe)
Derived terms
[edit](Proverbs)
- mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua
- mũtwe wa mũndũ ũmwe nĩ ithino
- nda ti mũtwe
- ndegwa nyinyi ĩhaicaga ng'ombe na mũtwe
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “mũtwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 484. Oxford: Clarendon Press.