- Embwen -settled area at same altitude
- Imbaret ap mosop- household millet plot
- Imbaret ap soi- homestead millet or maize plot
- Injor- eastern side of room
- Kaptich- cattle hut (elder's hut)
- kimonjogut- apical roof post
- koima - western side of room
- kong' asis- the east
- kok- men's sitting place outdoors
- kotap mosop- married woman's house
- mostinwek- fire / fires
- mabwaita- family altar
- Mosop- higher, fertile land
- sandet -sister's husband
- singroina- bachelors' hut
- Soin -lower grasslands, open grazing
- somet -girls' initiation room
- toloch (talach), toloita -support post in house
- Waldai -lower land, extensively farmed
In an old age A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
General terminologies amongst the kalenjins
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Kalenjin naming part 2
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