mũtwe

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mtue as an equivalent of English head in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba mtue and Swahili kitwa (pl. vitwa) as its equivalents.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /motwɛ/, /motoɛ/

Noun

mũtwe class 3 (plural mĩtwe)

head
Synonym: kĩongo

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

Related terms

gĩtwe

References

^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“mũtwe” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 484. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[hh1904-1] Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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