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Sabaot cuisine Originally our favorite food is kimnyeet (ugali) with either meat or cheeko especially mukunik (sour milk). Meat can be chicken, mutton or beef. This is the standard Sabaot cuisine. This is a complete balance diet and we had no trouble looking for fruits or those other "nonsense" foods. If one needed fruits there were plenty of wild berries : takamaamik, mintiliilak, siroonik/siryeek, komolik, tunguruurak and takurkurook. Yes you remember those fruits which when you ate you tongue turn navy blue like you galloped ink? Yes lemeyoonik that is. Do not forget mtangule. So we had mburik, our local fashion of carrots. I wonder if your generation knows these! There were different ways of preparing meat. Roasting was one way. As I can there's "wataneet" - roasted dry meat. To preserve such meat it was cut into a child's fist size tgen immersed deep in pure honey. Such meat could stay for a year or as long it need be. When served with such meat y...

Vocabulary of discipline Chus: to discipline little children with a thin light stick Chwat/ng'wat /ng'wet : to cane with slightly flexible stick. Notice that it is different from "ng'waat", to be submissive by raising both hands especially men. Normally a humiliating act. Pir : to whip or beat up. Moor -? Llap -? Tyool -? Rwat -?

Some of Cheptaab kooret names which am missing in Chitaab kooret girls naming. 1. Tamnai 2. Temko 3. Kapkarich 4. Teng'an 5. Chematui 6. Chebalyat. 7. Chemtinki. 8. Chelimo. 9. Koreny. 10. Cherirey/Cherirei Our mothers have abandoned these names like plaque. Just asking, do we still have a girl between 1- to-20 yrears who is named after the above listed lady's names? I doubt. Our mothers and ladies have reduced Cheptaab kooret names to only five; 1. Chebet. 2. Chepkwemoi. 3. Chemtai. 4. Chelang'at. 5. Cherotich. Meet ten girls [between 10-20]years and kindly request them to do some introduction. ....Chebet,,, Chemtai [Chemu],,,,, Chepkwemoi [Chepkwe],,,, Chelang'at [Chela] ,,,, Cherotich [Chero] are the only names you will hear. These must be their fashion names. Any community is respected and defined by its unique word-language, names and cultural practices?.. Our Sabaot community is on the run. Running from its uniqueness to casual. Kasebseebte kot ...

Soil types Hello chitaab koreet. Today I want to share the different types of soil. In koreet we have different names for each type of soil. Tutuweek is the general for all soil types especially the loose type. Usually when the wind blows over the soil, the finer soil is blown away in form of dust. Teng'eek is the farm soil. It also refers to the shamba in the larger context. When one buys a shamba, it is said "kaal Teng'eek" (he/she has bought land) . Ng'oonweet: This is the sand soil that is commonly used for building purposes. It is normally found in the low lands. Ng'oromuuk. This is the granular hardened soil that is the marrum. It normally has tough black little stones engulfed in red soil. It is best for construction purposes in forming the foundation of houses and roads. Some people erroneously call it "maramuut" or some Tesos who have been sabaotized call it "ng'aramuut". This is wrong it should be "ng'oromuuk...

Am tukuk (eat things)- It means drinking local alcohols or brews. Basyachkey/syachkey - this is to seriously search yourself to sincerely confirm if you have something hiding in your pocket[lol.] Buutkey/boorukey- is to give what you have/had to the last soul/coin. Butkey - destroy or misuse your portion. ichobkey - to be in readiness for something or activity. Iwiirukey- (fall down from a high point) - to arrive someplace.

Belyonteet - Elephant. In animals, we have belyontet. In the names of people, we have Belyo [Belio]- for men and Chebelyo [Chebelio] - for women. AND in trees we have mobyoo belyo. This must be unique name in Sabaot community identity. Another one is Masai. Found in people Arap Masai or boontet Masai. In our herds we have a black-tall bull by the name Masayii. AND in trees, we have masayanteet. Any other name which is found in three ecosystem families you know?

SOME CHITAAB KOORET FAMILIES WHICH PICKED THEIR EXISTENCE FROM HOW WE RELATE TO EACH OTHER and NOT FROM OUR NAMES. Kapkuuko Kapkooko Kapmaama Kapsaanke Kapchoorwenyu Kapkasaantanyu Kaplatyeet Kaplameet Kapkuboretyeenyu Kaptoowenyu Kabang'waay Kabiikoy Kab-asuuben Kapweriinyu/kap-oriinyu Kapchepnyuu ....................... The above and more picked their existence from relationships in our community. For instance, Kapkuuko [grandfather], who is the father to our fathers or mothers, 'grand' is our relationship. Now, the challenge is LAST BORN. Some will say KAPTOOWET/KAPTOOWENYU while others will say KAPMUTUUWET/ KAPMUTUUWENYU. Which term is acceptable in our soomburto?