mũndũ mũgo

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mundu mugo as an equivalent of English medicine man in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /moⁿdo moɣɔ/

Noun

mũndũ mũgo class 1 (plural andũ ago)

  1. a person who performs healing and divination practices; medicine man

Synonyms

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũndũ mũgo ndarĩ ngumo itũũra rĩake
  • mũndũ mũgo nderagũragĩra
  • mũndũ mũgo wa gwĩthokia ndarĩ rũ(ũ)a
  • mũndũ mũgo wa itũũra ndagaga

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • “mũgo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 115. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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