Mũthũngũ

Kikuyu

Alternative forms
  • mũthũngũ

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili mzungu.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòðóᵑɡò(ꜜ)/
Armstrong (1940) claims that the terms mũceere, mũirĩtu, mbarathi, ndũrũme, mũthanga, Mũthũngũ (represented as moðooŋgo), etc. have the same pattern in isolation.[2] As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.[3]

Noun

Mũthũngũ class 1 (plural Athũngũ)

  1. the White, European

(Nouns)

  • Gĩthũngũ class 7

References
  1. Iribemwangi, P. I (2016). "Kikuyu phonology and orthography: Any hope for continuity of indigenous languages?", p. 246. In G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty (eds.) The Language Loss of the Indigenous. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 239–253. →ISBN
  2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
  3. “Mũthũngũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. 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.
  5. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  • Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 234.
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