mũgaa

Kikuyu

mũgaa (#1)

mũgaa (#1)

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mugaa as an equivalent of English mimosa in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mò.ɣá.à(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.

(Kiambu)

(Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including gĩcũhĩ, gĩkorora, kĩgokora, mũceere, mũgathĩ, mũgogo (pl. mĩgogo), mũgoma, mũirĩtu, mbarĩki, ndagitari, ngirathi, njohero, njũi, rĩithori (pl. maithori), ũnyiinyi, and so on.[2]

Noun

mũgaa class 3 (plural mĩgaa)

red acacia (Vachellia seyal, syn. Acacia stenocarpa,[3] A. seyal)
(in the singular) rainless hot period at end of one growing season and before the long or short rains begin[3]

See also

(Acacia spp.): mwĩkunya, mũrera, ruai, mũthandũkũ, mũthi

References

Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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.
“mũgaa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 97. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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