mũna

See also: muna, muña, and mʉna

Kikuyu

Alternative forms

Etymology

Hutchins (1909) records m'Ona as a Kikuyu name for Chrysophyllum sp.).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mona/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 4 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũthũ, and so on.

Noun

mũna class 3 (plural mĩna)

  1. muna (Pouteria adolfi-friedericii, syn. Aningeria adolfi-friedericii[2][3]); yields timber.

See also
  • mũnũgũnũ, mũthinia

References
  1. Hutchins, D. E. (1909). Report on the Forests of British East Africa, p. 24. London: Darling & Son.
  2. “mũna” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 277. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  3. Leakey, L. S. B. (1977). The Southern Kikuyu before 1903, v. III, p. 1342. London and New York: Academic Press. →ISBN
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