mũtongu

Kikuyu
mũtongu
mũtongu na ndongu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mò.tɔ̀.ᵑɡú/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩng'ang'i, ngũkũ, kĩeha, and so on.

Noun

mũtongu class 3 (plural mĩtongu)

  1. apple of Sodom, Sodom's apple, bitter tomato (Solanum incanum[1][2] and S. campylacanthum[3][4])

Hypernyms

Meronyms
  • (leaf) itongu; (fruit) ndongu


See also

References
  1. Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 11.
  2. Kays, Stanley J. (2011). Cultivated vegetables of the world: a multilingual onomasticon, p. 205. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers. doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-720-2 →ISBN
  3. “mũtongu” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 459. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. Schmelzer, G.H. and A. Gurib-Fakim (eds.) (2008). Medicinal Plants 1, p. 525. Wageningen, Netherlands: PROTA Foundation.
  5. Mugu, Muturi Anthony (2014). Antonymy in Gĩkũyũ: a cognitive semantics approach, p. 32.
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