tũkenge
- infants, babies. Infants. Very young children or babies; the plural form referring to multiple small children or newborns.
Example: Gũkena-rĩ, nĩ ũrĩa wa kuoya tũkenge twaku (Blessed the one who seizes your children and smashes them against the rock : the children represent the future generations, and so must be destroyed if the enemy is truly to be eradicated. Blessed the one who seizes your children); Ciana nĩcio ngatua anene ao, na maathagwo nĩ tũkenge. (I will place boys as their princes;)