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In most cases you can't miss seeing these when visited a village.... Oyee Kokararan korenyo!

Two Communities in Kapchorwa,Government Lodge and Kisenyi decided to hold a drinking competition. A week to the competition,Government Lodge sent a delegate Chemutai, to Kisenyi to confirm if the competition will still hold. When Chemutai, the delegate got there, the people of Kisenyi brought 20 litres of their strongest Ajono (Local Gin) as the guest's drink. Chemutai asked; "Can I test it?" The people said;"Go ahead." The guy drank, finished the whole 20 litres and said; "This is okay, where is the main drink?" The People of Kisenyi got scared and shouted; "Come on, are you among the competitors?!!." Chemutai replied; "No, I did not qualify."😂😂 like & Share... www.sebeination.blogspot.com

Koot itiik In koreet we normally say "koot" to mean clean a water source especially a spring. Usually it entails removing mud and other debri to ensure clean water flow or enable a clean water collection. Mostly it could be where we draw or a watering point for animals. Although ears may not necessarily be muddy, we use the same phrase to mean to clean the ears of "sokuutek"(ear wax). "Weekoot itiik" This phrase has more meaning than the literal meaning we know. It is a stern warning not to repeat the same mistake! What other koreet phrasal verbs do you have?

Ankuryeet tree. In Sabaot community nation speaking, the pictured natural tree is ankuryeet. I don't know how Nandi, Kipsigis, Tugen , Keiyo , Marakwet, Sengwer and pokot call it. The ankuryeet tree has earned incomparable respect equivalent to iteet tree in Sabaot community native. One, iteet tree makes Chitaab kooret to upgrade friendliness and duly love teeta [cow] due to its impact to the fermented milk [mukuniik/mukuluuk.] Ankuryeet on the other hand, earned its respect due to its leaves used as traditional tissue paper. The softness and moist like characteristics of its leaves makes it preferably as a friendly traditional tissue paper.

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 ...