nĩ ũndũ wa

Kikuyu

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ne oⁿdo wa/

Idiom

nĩ ũndũ wa

  1. because of[1]
    Ĩkĩũrũo nĩ mwoyo oona nyama nĩ ũndũ wa ũkoroku. - He [hyena (hiti)] lost his life as well as the meat because of his greediness.[2]

Synonyms
  • tondũ wa

References
  1. “ũndũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 301. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  2. Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 303. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
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