njogu

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *ǹjògù. Hinde (1904) records njogu as an equivalent of English elephant in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba unzōō and Swahili ndovu etc. as its equivalents[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ᶮdʑɔɣu/

Noun

njogu class 9/10 (plural njogu)

  1. elephant

Proverbs
  • gũtirĩ ũndũ njogu
  • njogu ndĩremagwo nĩ mũguongo wayo

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 20–21. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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