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All three names have the same meaning. [26] Ludwig Krapf recorded the name as both Kenia and Kegnia. [27] [28] [29] Some have said that this was a precise notation of the African pronunciation / ˈ k ɛ n j ə /. [30] An 1882 map drawn by Joseph Thompsons, a Scottish geologist and naturalist, indicated Mt. Kenya as Mt. Kenia. [25]
The system observes that every name of a person, object or place has a meaning. [1] The system has been subject to westernization and attrition to linguistics due to the Kenyan adoption of Swahili language as a lingua-franca and the dynamic view that indigenous languages are provincial and irrelevant.
Ken'ya or Kenya (written: 賢也, 賢哉, 研也, 研哉, 建也, 建哉, 健也, 健矢, 兼哉 or 謙弥) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Kenya Akiba (秋葉 賢也, born 1962), Japanese politician; Kenya Fujinaka (born 1993), Japanese volleyball player
Pages in category "Kenyan names" The following 133 pages are in this category, out of 133 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aguta; Aprot; Arusei;
Kenya is a given name. It is considered to be an African-American name in the United States. [1] Notable people with the name include: Kenya Barris (born 1974 ...
The naming of the Chonyi people is symbolic, for example, Mbeyu is a name of a girl, mbeyu meaning seeds for planting. Tsuma means a boy who is a provider. Nyamvula is a girl's name meaning a rainy season, born during times of rain. Mnyazi being a girl's name meaning a sower. Mokoli is a boy name meaning a helpful person.
The Luhya traditionally worshiped an ancient 'god' of the same name (commonly known as Isis, or Were Khakaba. When Christianity was re-introduced to the Luhya in the early 1900s by Christian missionaries from Europe and America, the Luhya peoples took the name of their traditional god, Nyasae, and gave that name to the Living Abrahamic God.
So when they asked the name of the mountain, they were given the name 'kiima kya kenia'. 'kenia' in Kamba means to glitter, or to shine, hence the Akamba people referred to it as the mountain that glitters, or the shining mountain. So these missionaries recorded it as Mt. Kenya, a Kamba word, and the country was then later named after this ...