ũgwati

Kikuyu

Etymology

From kũgwata (“to grasp, to seize”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /òɣwàtì(ꜜ)/
As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

Noun

ũgwati class 14 (plural mogwati)

  1. danger, hazard[1]

References
  1. “ũgwati” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 133. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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