mũgambo

Hinde (1904) records mugaambo as an equivalent of English voice in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

• IPA^(key): /mòɣàᵐbɔ̀(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Armstrong (1940) classifies this term into moondo class which includes mũndũ, huko, igego, igoti, inooro, irigũ, irũa, kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũri, mwaki (“fire”), ndaka, ndigiri, njagathi, njogu, Mũrĩmi (“man's name”), etc.[2] Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[3]

mũgambo class 3 (plural mĩgambo)

1. voice

• mũgambo ũrĩ kũgũa thĩ nduoyagwo; woyagwo na ũngĩ

(Nouns)

• magambo class 6

• ngemi, kiugo

• Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 233.
• “mũgambo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.