ndata

Kamba

Etymology

Hinde (1904) records ndata as an equivalent of English star, listing also “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu njata and Swahili nyota as its equivalents.[1]

Noun

ndata

  1. star

References
  1. Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 56–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Whiteley, W.H. and M.G. Muli (1962). Practical Introduction to Kamba, p. 162. London: Oxford University Press.
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