mũkonyo

Kamba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mòkɔ́ɲɔ̀/^[2]

Noun

mũkonyo

1. navel

References

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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /mòkɔ̀ɲɔ́ꜜ/^[2]

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)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.^[3]

Noun

mũkonyo class 3 (plural mĩkonyo)

1. navel

References

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.

• “mũkonyo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 230. Oxford: Clarendon Press.