mũcarage

Kikuyu

Alternative forms
  • mucarage, musheragi,[1] mutharage,[2] mũcharage[3]

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Sharàge as the Kikuyu name for Olea hochstetterii (sic!).[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòɕàɾáɣɛ̀(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

Noun

mũcarage class 3 (plural mĩcarage)

  1. East African olive, Elgon olive (Olea capensis subsp. macrocarpa, syn. O. hochstetteri[5][6]); its timber is traded internationally.
  2. Elgon olive (Olea welwitschii, syn. Linociera welwitschii[5])
  3. Cape chestnut (Calodendrum capense)[2]
    Synonyms: mũraraciĩ, mũrũrũa

See also

(Olea sp.):

References
  1. Walker, Aidan et al. (1989, 2005). The Encyclopedia of Wood. Quarto.
  2. Beentje, H.J. (1994). Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. Nairobi, Kenya: National Museum of Kenya. →ISBN
  3. Kamau, Loice Njeri et al. (2016). "Ethnobotanical survey and threats to medicinal plants traditionally used for the management of human diseases in Nyeri County, Kenya", p. 10. TANG 6(3).
  4. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 12. London: Darling & Son.
  5. “mũcarage” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, pp. 48–9. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  6. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1331. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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