menya

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records kumenya as an equivalent of English know in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kumanya as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɛɲa/

Verb

menya (infinitive kũmenya)

  1. to know[2]
    ndiramenya - I do not know

Synonyms

Derived terms

(Verbs)

  • kũmenyera

(Proverbs)

  • gĩtoĩ kĩmenyaga kĩerwo
  • mũciĩ ũmenyagwo nĩ mũraari ti mũroki

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 34–35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 233.
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