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anyokie - (see onyokie)
- (see onyoki)
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- to be red (verb of stage) [Mol: 1978; p.132];
- to be reddish, brown (verb of state) [Mol: 1978; p.35]
anyori - pure green, for beads and grassland [B.10.02.98]
- green colour (e.g. grass) [K&P 13.02.98]
- green [Klumpp: 1987; p.287]
- to be green (verb of state) [Mol: 1978; p.77]
arara - mix of colour, something of what you can’t really say of which
colour it is [B.10.02.98]
- not known [K&P 13.02.98]
- the women at clock tower didn’t know [13.03.98]
- black: Kipsigis word applied to beads (Purko) [Klumpp: 1987;
p.278]
barlai - all types of colours but less intense (anyori barlai or anyori ado)
[B.10.02.98]
- white items which posses absolutely white colour; only used for
inanimate things not for cattle or persons [K&P 13.02.98]
- showed a light blue bead saying barlai and blue are the same
[Ngaiseri Paulos 13.03.98]
- orange (cattle and sometimes beads) [Klumpp: 1987; p.278]
barrikoi / barrikon - not known [B.10.02.98]
- not known [K&P 13.02.98]
- brown (cattle only) [Ngaiseri Paulos 13.03.98]
- orangey brown (cattle only) [Klumpp: 1987; p.278]
- reddish-brown [Mol: 1978; p.132] and brown [Mol: 1978; p.35]
dere - mix of white and black (for cattle and beads) [B.10.02.98]; for
cattle and other animals only, literally the name of a small monkey
[Mama Nasieku 13.03.98 & Sadalla 1998]
- not known [K 13.02.98]
- beige (cattle only) [Klumpp: 1987; p.278]
eiboono - bead strings forming part of isaen elukunya going over the nose and
round the chin [photo No. 5]
eleketiet - (or eleketiat) ornament worn to hold in the stomach by women
who recently have given birth [Klumpp: 1987; p.280]
- (kinyatta) belt with thongs to hold back the stomach after birth
[Klumpp: 1987; p.287]
emagira - upper arm bracelet for female decoration [object2-No.6]