mũringa

Kikuyu
mũringa
mũringa

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Ringa as the Kikuyu name for Cordia holstii.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mò.ɾí.ᵑɡà(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.

Noun

mũringa class 3 (plural mĩringa)

  1. large-leafed cordia (Cordia africana, syn. C. abyssinica, C. holstii); traditionally used for making hives and stools[3][4]

See also
  • mũkuũ

References
  1. Maundu, Patrick and Bo Tengnäs (eds.) (2005). Useful Trees and Shrubs for Kenya, p. 169. Nairobi, Kenya: World Agroforestry Centre—Eastern and Central Africa Regional Programme (ICRAF-ECA). →ISBN
  2. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  3. “mũringa” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 389. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  4. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1306. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN

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