mwanga

Kikuyu

Etymology

Borrowed from Swahili wanga (starch).[1]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mwanga class 3 (plural mĩanga)

  1. cassava, manioc
    Synonym: mũgwacĩ

References

  1. mwanga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 13. 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, 75123.

Swahili

Noun

mwanga (m-mi class, plural mianga)

  1. light (source of illumination)
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