TUGEN CLANS

1.Ringoi - snake (eren)
2.Siakwei - Bee (Segemia)
3.Kobil - wild pig (toret)
4.Kure - Quail (Taiwa)
5.Saniako - Monkey (Cheree)
6.Kapkuoi/kabon - Moset/kipekeyat (baboon)
7.Sokom - hawk (Chepsirere)
8.Toiyoi - Lightening (Ilat)
9.Tulo - Fox (Lel)
10.Kong'oot - Fire (Maa)
11.Tungo - hyena (kimaget)
12.Soti/chepkeres - Sun (Asista)
13.Teriki/kipngotop/kipkoitin - Elephant (Balio)
14.Talai - Frog (Mororoch)
15.Tarkok - Guniea fowl (terkekekya)
16.Chesibon/kabon - (Family Totem - moset- black baboon)
17.Kipyegen - (Family totem white baboon)
18.Kipkoitin - (family totem Elephant)
19.Kabarsitei - (Family Tortem - Leopard Kobilo)
20.Kipsochon clan(animal is Oloitige/zebra)
.Popular in lembus people,
21.Chepsiror(tortem rat(muriat)
22.Kipboroge - chepkuliet
23.kipseger - monkey(kibiset)
24.Kipsegecha - kongony or kongot(crane)
25.Kipkuykuy/kimoi - kuikuye(crocodile)
26.Mokiy - Arawet(moon)

1.TALAI tortem is in three categories:- namely leopard, lion and frog
2.TARKOK categories takolie (crub), terkekyat (kanga), bang'ang (hornbil)
3.KOBILO categories toret (warthog), sabite (poncupine)
4.CHESIBON categories kamoiben, kapsemelo
5.KIMOI categories, soe (buffalo), kongony (crane), segem (bee)
6.KIBOROGE/TERIKI categories, belio(elephant), chepkulie(small safari ants)
7.KABON categories chesibon, kipyegen, kapkuoi

Names of fingers starting with the thumb

a) kiptesot- thumb
b) koolindet-
c) siab kwen/siab tamook
d) mesiewa
e) chepkiloot/metengele

PARTS OF A TYPICAL KIPSIGIS HOMESTEAD/COMPOUND,

Inside

1.Olmarich/mogoto- gate although they are not the same.In the main house (kamosop) we have,
2. kurgat/musereita- door. sic~(musereita was made from muserech tree.)
3. inchoor/nchoor- sitting room
4Tootet/suum- bedroom literally
5. itook- bed
6. koima/koitab ma-fireplace
7. kipeelkonyan- space between fireplace and wall.women keep cooking stuff.
8. saanet/saana- place for keeping utensils and it hangs from the root
9 kapsotoon- place for keeping calabashes
10. Taboot/tabuut- ceiling

Outside
1. kook-sitting place for men
2. Mabwai- the altar it must be on the eastern side of the main house as it is sacred place.
3 kaapmetet- sitting place for women and in most cases to the western side.women do their stuff there.
4. Piutab tuga/apathetic-cattle enclosure
5. kaapmoen- calves enclosure
6. kaaptich/singiroino- hut for men built inside or adjacent to cattle enclosure for security reasons
7 kapmosoop/mosoop- main house for parents
8 choogo/chooget- granary

names givens to character and personality amongst Kalenjins

1. Chepkutiat- soloist.
2. Tienindet- singer.
3. Chepkugoniot- Prostitute woman.
4. Chebaigeyat- Concubine
5. Chepkerta/chepkesesiot- Promiscuous woman.
6. Kipkerta- gigolo (prosmicuos man for money).
7. Bunotian- alien person.
8. kipsogorindet- spy
9. Chemungarainik- businessmen.
10. Chepngwalo-Traders.

Kipsigis names of common heavenly bodies

1. Asista-sun
2. Arawet-moon
3. Koromerik-galazy
4. Kipsomoguk-constellations
5. Cheptabisyet-Comet
6. Kipsengwetiet-fragment stones of meteorites

Worriors cluster amongst Kalenjins

1. Yootik- first spies of a raid.
2. Seegeik- Second spies of a raid.
3. Ngametyet-Leaders of return forces (warrior).
4. Pirtich- Those responsible for cattle.
5. Odimdo/lumweet- followed pirtich and cattle.
6. Kipeelbany- cowards who feeds worriors on their way home.

Ageset cluster

1. Bakule- Name of agemates who were circumcised in the same home or menjo.
2. Botum- name of agemates circumcised same time but different homes.
3. Chonginiek- First members of a given age group or sets.
4. Kiptaru- Second members of a given age group or set.
5. Kiptoyotoek- middle members of a given age set.
6. Kiptoin – last group of members of a given age set or group.