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Swenani
#51 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 1:42:03 PM
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MADE wrote:
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Swenani wrote:
1.Kapsabet....Its kwa Elizabeth(Elizabeth's place) in kale kap is kwa and since you know kales pronounce Elizabeth as elisabet they called the place kapsabet
2.Kaptana---Kwa turner(turner's place)
Ikolomani---Gold mine in luhya kuna chida ya matamchi Gold mine=Kold mine
3.Kakamega-Kakamega was used to describe how the mzungus used to cut ugali(kakamega-Kamekata) mega is to cut while kaka is to refer to a small person
4.Chavakali:Is a women things in luhya(it was a women market)
5.Bungoma:engoma(drums)
6.Emuhaya:Aim higher:A mzungu who used to run a friends church used to encourage the kids to aim higher so they would go around telling otherr kids to emuhaya


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Aim higher = Emuhaya!!!


hahaa..Isikuti nayo?


Isikuti=Its good
Luhya's were entertaining a mzungu with the using the isikuti,when they finished the mzungu said its good.The luhya's thought the mzungu named the thing isikuti(its good)
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bkismat
#52 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:08:18 PM
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Swenani wrote:
MADE wrote:
seppuku wrote:
Swenani wrote:
1.Kapsabet....Its kwa Elizabeth(Elizabeth's place) in kale kap is kwa and since you know kales pronounce Elizabeth as elisabet they called the place kapsabet
2.Kaptana---Kwa turner(turner's place)
Ikolomani---Gold mine in luhya kuna chida ya matamchi Gold mine=Kold mine
3.Kakamega-Kakamega was used to describe how the mzungus used to cut ugali(kakamega-Kamekata) mega is to cut while kaka is to refer to a small person
4.Chavakali:Is a women things in luhya(it was a women market)
5.Bungoma:engoma(drums)
6.Emuhaya:Aim higher:A mzungu who used to run a friends church used to encourage the kids to aim higher so they would go around telling otherr kids to emuhaya


Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly
Aim higher = Emuhaya!!!


hahaa..Isikuti nayo?


Isikuti=Its good
Luhya's were entertaining a mzungu with the using the isikuti,when they finished the mzungu said its good.The luhya's thought the mzungu named the thing isikuti(its good)

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YoungMulla
#53 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:43:08 PM
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very interesting.
what of githunguri, juja, gatunguru, ihururu ...
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kysse
#54 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:53:31 PM
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Ihururu,-eagles mob (mahuru)

Warufaga(elburgon)-potatoes were given that last name zikimwagika they would roll in all directions.

Kangumbiri- A place where they jailed people & after serving the jail term,white pple would say...u can go free! lmao.Laughing out loudly

Karindundu.... a village in Mathira where there were many owls

Kiangoma- madeemoni place

Mathakwai-ini- place has many trees with big leaves

Ndumanu- lots of darkness that you can't see anything..

Kiangwaci-lots of sweetpotatoes

Kiaruhiu-where everybody was buying pangas to farm

Kamunyaka_ guys must be lucky

Ndugamano~ People landed while standing.
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Gathige
#55 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:06:23 PM
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kysse wrote:
Ihururu,-eagles mob (mahuru)

Warufaga(elburgon)-potatoes were given that last name zikimwagika they would roll in all directions.

Kangumbiri- A place where they jailed people & after serving the jail term,white pple would say...u can go free! lmao.Laughing out loudly

Karindundu.... a village in Mathira where there were many owls

Kiangoma- madeemoni place

Mathakwai-ini- place has many trees with big leaves

Ndumanu- lots of darkness that you can't see anything..

Kiangwaci-lots of sweetpotatoes

Kiaruhiu-where everybody was buying pangas to farm

Kamunyaka_ guys must be lucky

Ndugamano~ People landed while standing.



Ndugamano~ People landed while standing.[/quote]

This might give some pple ideas on other matters.
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Lolest!
#56 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:54:42 PM
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kysse
#57 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:57:54 PM
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There's a place na huko Dagoretti gishagi wanaita Mai-a-ihii


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Wakanyugi
#58 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:27:08 PM
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Lolest! wrote:
@wakanyugi, Siakago is Sia Aka Ago as @rankaz has explained. I thought Karatina is corruption for quarantine?....Frere Town was named after Robert Frere, a missionary.


Thanks.

Karatina is named after the Muratina tree.

But of course Kariakoor, Kahuka ka Mburi, Kirigiti, Thogoto are corruptions of Carrier corps, Kipkarbus, Cricket and Scotland respectively.



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Wakanyugi
#59 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:31:14 PM
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kysse wrote:


Ndugamano~ People landed while standing.



Wee wacha usitubring'ie! Ati people landed when standing Laughing out loudly
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oltome
#60 Posted : Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:43:30 PM
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Wakanyugi wrote:
Ituramiro = the story I have heard, is it is at the of a steep hill. Hence 'kukaa vibaya'

The people of Kirinyaga/Embu are the Luo's of Central province - thus the penchant to Anglicize names like, Difatha's, Kutus, Runyenjes, Siakago etc

Karatina - from the Muratina tree, one used to stand where the market now is.

Ndenderu is a slippery place.

Many of the names in the northern part of the Nyeri Valley and Nyandarua are from Maasai, specifically Samburu, who occupied the area before the Maa civil war. Thus names like Nyeri, Mweiga, Ol Kalou, Nyahururu, Maragema, Njororoko etc

While we are at it, who can tell me where the following names came from:
- Gatina, Rodkopany, Padpieri, Iveti, Gathatia ng'ondu

Shame on you Shame on you the Samburu, though Maa speakers, are a different entity to the Maasai, the section that was annihilated was the Ilaikipiak clan which was very powerful but warlike and quarrelsome, apparently the remnants of this clan were assimilated particularly by the Nyeri Kikuyu (hence their famed 'meaness') and to lesser extent some Ameru clans
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