mũtamaiyũ

Kikuyu
mũtamaiyũ

Alternative forms
  • mutamaiyu, mũtamaiyo[1]

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Tamàyu as the Kikuyu name for Olea chrysophilla (sic!).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /motamaijo/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 2.
  • (Kiambu)
  • (Limuru) IPA(key): /mòtàmáíjó/
Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group whose remaining member is mũthongorima.[3]

Noun

mũtamaiyũ class 3 (plural mĩtamaiyũ)

  1. wild olive,[4] brown olive[4] (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, syn. O. africana,[1][5] O. europaea subsp. africana,[4] O. chrysophylla)
    Synonym: mũtero

See also

References
  1. 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).
  2. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  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. Dharani, Najma (2002). Field Guide to Common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa, p. 138. Cape Town: Struik Publishers. Rep. 2005. →ISBN
  5. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1331. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
  • “mũtamaiyũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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