wax pounded together with sweet-smelling leaves (kept by bee-keeper for attracting bees to empty hive, burnt inside barrel); ĩya mũndũ gĩthingo = get advantage of someone, go behind his back
Related words
mũthingi — foundation; structural base supporting a building, underlying support laid befor
thingi — sod covering put over a carefully laid out pile of wood before lighting it to bu