Traditional medicines amongst Kalenjins

1. chebindorwet/legetetiot - mogongenik/tungoek ( arthritis and coughs)
2. kulelwet - treat coughs and headaches/tongoek ak metit
3. chesamisiet - chebo kit kit ....tungoegab lagok/treat children coughs
4. kimonchongwet/ngechebchat - muguleldo/heart diseases. Chew and swallow
5. loplopitiet-  Extract the juice to treat the ear diseases
6. kunmandet - moet ne sirgichet. moet ne mo sobe/ treating wounds that are difficult to heal
7. soget plus manget- tungoek/and spray snake bites and snake puff
8. sagawaita - tungoek/coughs
9. Bongongenik/sugumeriet - chew seeds to clean stomach parasites/deworming
10. Bobat nemongu en tegek keguren Bundet - treats children with stomach pains. You boil it an give it to the young ones of 1 to 6 months old children
11. kwom tebengwo/silibwet - treat pregnant women/kidney diseases
12. chegab sigiriet - treat chest pains

Dowry payment among the Kalenjin:-

1. Teta ne abai (cow under lactation) this signifies procreation to the new family
2. Eito ne iyumi tuga (Oxen)
3. Teta nebo riyotet/ne kotot (Cow near to conceive) 
4. Roriat (Heifer) 
5. Teta ne iyumi nego/iywoget (mature cow) 
6. Kwesta/Kipkugeret (he goat for father) 
7. Kechiriet/Chepkugeret (Sheep for mother) 
8. Chepngabait/Roriat (token for upkeep especially during childhood) 
9. Kechiriet nebo arwet (for mother in law so as to allow son in law call her Boger alternatively Goat with lamb for mother in law so as to allow son in law call her Bogine 
10. Mwaita  
11. Chepletiot-Normally mature heifer where the son in law will later take back the calf.Normally
    Chepletiot is not commonly paid but in a situation where the husband quarrels with his wife to the point where she goes to her real fathers home and the mistake emenates from the husband the husband was compelled to pay chepletiot. 
12. Nyoetab kaat(normally if the couple elopes without the consent of their immediate families the husband was supposed to pay a fine of normally five thousand to twenty thousand to is wife father/family)kiome sanian koigeny meaning that the assistance from inlaws is endless.

Different time in a day as per Kalenjin

1. The night -këmöut
2. The dawn -ëgönet
3. The morning twilight -körirönet
4. The sunrise -chorünet
5. The daytime -pëtüt
6. The sunset -chimildöet
7. The evening twilight -lang'atüt
8. The dusk -imenët

Names of the week among the Kalenjins

1. Sunday : Kotisap

2. Monday :Kotaai

3. Tuesday : Ko oeng 

4. Wednesday : Ko somok 

5. Thursday : Ko ang’wan 

6. Friday : Ko muut

7. Saturday : ko Loo

Names of animals amongst the kalenjin people

1. Tombisiet- camel
2. Ting'ong'et- crocodile
3. Nyumbut- horse
4. Boinet - gazelle
5. Leitigo- zebra
6. Kimagetiet- hyena
7. Magaita- hippo
9. Cheplanget- leopard
10. Beliot- elephant
11. Ngotiat- wild beast
12. Soet- buffalo
13. Chemengewet- spiny ant eater
14. Cheswereret- porcupine
15. Ngetundo- lion
16. Tisiet - baboon
17. Ng'ororiet- goat
18. Ngechiryet- sheep
19. Cherekweny- hare
20. Ketet- cheeteh
21. Murngetunyit- tiger
22. Kiplekwet - rabbit
23. Toriong - honey becker
24. Moset- monkey
25. Koroitiet - colombus monkey
26. Cheptirkichet - antelope
27. Suiyot- wild dog
28. Lelwot- Jackal
29. Koboet - squirrel
30. Chereret-Vervet  monkey
31. Kipsirichet - rhino
32. Kesengit
33. Mbilisiet
34. Toret - warthog
35. Mengubeito-scorpion
 36. Kimenjerut
37. Masiroret
38. Nderit - hyrax
39. Kipsomberet
40. Songoliet- ostrich
41. Kooteet – ant eater,
42  Impolet - black bushbuck
43. Miindet – Bongo
44. Rogoyueet - Eland
45. Sing’oito– Waterbuck
46. Mogoitit- Black Monkey
47. Toraet –wild pig
48. Tumda– great forest hog

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