mũcakwe

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòɕákoɛ́ꜜ/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 7 with a disyllabic stem, together with njata, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /mòɕákoɛ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, as mũcakũe, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[1]

Noun

mũcakwe class 3 (plural mĩcakwe)

  1. corncob, cob

Holonyms

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũcakwe ũgũithagia njamba

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.
  • “mũcakwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 44. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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