mwere

Dumbea

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /moerɛ/

Noun

mwere

  1. night

References

Kikuyu
mwere (#1, 3)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /moɛ̀ɾɛ̌/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩgunyũ, njagĩ, kiugũ, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru)
As for Tonal Class, as mũere, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩkwa (pl. ikwa), ithangũ (pl. mathangũ), kiugũ, kĩboko, kĩgunyũ, kĩnya, kĩroboto, kĩrũũmi, mbogo, mũcinga, mũgate, mũhaka, mũrangi, mũrũthi, ndaraca, ndirica, njohi, nyũmba, thĩ, and so on.[1]

Noun

mwere class 3 (plural mĩere)

  1. pearl millet, bulrush millet[2] (Pennisetum glaucum)[3]
  2. finger millet[2] (Eleusine coracana)
  3. field of bulrush millet or finger millet
    Gũtirĩ nyoni njega mwere-inĩ. - There is no good bird in the bulrush millet field.

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mbura ya mwere

(Proverbs)

  • mwere mwega ũmenyagwo na ngetho

See also

References
  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. “mwere” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 93–94. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Pennisetum glaucum. TICAH. (retrieved 5 April 2018)
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