mũtwe

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mtue as an equivalent of English head in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mtue and Swahili kitwa (pl. vitwa) as its equivalents[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /motwɛ/, /motoɛ/

Noun

mũtwe class 3 (plural mĩtwe)

  1. head
    Synonym: kĩongo

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũtumia ndatũraga mũtwe na ndaikagia ndahi ndua
  • mũtwe wa mũndũ ũmwe nĩ ithino
  • nda ti mũtwe
  • ndegwa nyinyi ĩhaicaga ng'ombe na mũtwe
  • gĩtwe

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • “mũtwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 484. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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