iniũrũ

Kikuyu

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records inyürro as an equivalent of English nose in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba inyu as its equivalent[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /inioɾo/

Noun

iniũrũ class 5 (plural maniũrũ)[2]

  1. nose

Holonyms

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mũmeni ũngĩ amũrutaga mbakĩ iniũrũ
  • mũmenwo arutagwo mbakĩ (yake) iniũrũ

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 42–43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. “iniũrũ” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 282. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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