mũkonyo

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Kamba

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records mukonyo as an equivalent of English navel, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu mukonyo etc. as their equivalents.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mũkonyo

  1. navel

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 188. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.

Kikuyu

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Etymology

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Hinde (1904) records mukonyo, lulila and kikonya as equivalents of English navel in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mukonyo as their equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation

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As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
  • (Kiambu)

Noun

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mũkonyo class 3 (plural mĩkonyo)

  1. navel

References

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  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences", p. 188. In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 179–210.
  3. ^ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
  • konyo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 230. Oxford: Clarendon Press.