mũgogo

Kikuyu
FWOTD – 25 October 2022
mũgogo

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records mugogo as an equivalent of English log and bridge in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili gogo (“log”) (pl. magogo) as its equivalent.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mòɣɔ́(ː)ɣɔ̀(ꜜ)/
According to Clements & Ford (1979:196), the first ɔ is pronounced long.[2]
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 9 with a disyllabic stem, together with gĩcũhĩ, njũi, and so on.

Noun

mũgogo class 3 (plural mĩgogo)

  1. stout log[5]
  2. fallen or felled trunk[5]
  3. log bridge, trunk bridge
    kwara mũgogo - to build a log bridge (over a stream)[5]

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũgogo ũmwe ndũaraga iriũko
  • mũgogo ũmwe ndũhingaga iriũko

See also

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 10–11, 38–39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Clements, George N. and Kevin C. Ford (1979). "Kikuyu Tone Shift and Its Synchronic Consequences." 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.
  4. Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
  5. “mũgogo” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 115. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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