ABANYALA BA KAKAMEGA: Language- Nouns for waste and by-products

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By Balovera Edwin Ongacho

Processing of food and food crops yield many waste products or by-products. These products have specific names in Olunyala (K). The following are some of the names.

  1. Akachundukhire- waste of badly brewed traditional brew.
  2. Akafubire- tubers that became waste due to failure to be cooked. They turn watery with raw taste.
  3. Amanda- waste that are charcoal in nature.
  4. Amachakicha- waste from green maize stem or sugarcane leaves. 
  5. Amachekhe- waste that form beer dregs residues which can have water added to produce some dilute brew. 
  6. Amachuuka- waste potatoes or cassavas that have become expired at harvest time. 
  7. Amafwifwi- waste from cotton after harvesting and separating it from fine cotton.
  8. Amakhambalia- waste shell scrapped off the body of a scaly fish
  9. Amakhanya- waste that remains after chewing or crushing sugarcane. 

  10. Amakhoba- waste easily peeled by hand from ripe fruits such as mango, banana and pawpaw
  11. Amakhochilia- chewed and spit roughage of vegetable such as pigeon peas
  12. Amakhokhwe- waste of water and weed mixture pulled out of gutters and trenches.
  13. Amakhokoro- waste scrap of porridge that sticks on the cooking item
  14. Amakholoboyo- waste of testa of maize, groundnut or bean seed during preparation of meals that requires removal of the same.
  15. Amakhongoiko- waste of empty seed pods or empty cuboid.
  16. Amakokha- waste arising from sweeping dirt in the compound.
  17. Amakuyi- waste of simsim husks or waste coffee husks. 

  18. Amalekhe- bear waste left at drinking place while starting a migration journey. The pots and straws were also left.
  19. Amalondo- waste scrap of hardened crust of ugali that sticks on the cooking item.
  20. Amapwenge- waste of egg shell after brooding of a bird. 

  21. Amasakachi- waste of dry maize stem stalks that remain in farm after harvesting.
  22. Amasanjalia- waste from stems of beans after threshing.
  23. Amasangara- waste after peeling groundnuts or monkey-nuts. 

  24. Amasasalia- waste of honeycombs after harvesting honey.
  25. Amasengeli- waste from which iron ore has been extracted.
  26. Amasifwa- discarded waste beer dregs that cannot produce any brew.
  27. Amateche- waste of sorghum after thrashing the heads.
  28. Amatolito- waste of uncooked flour that is found in porridge.
  29. Amatukhulu- waste of dirty water that remains after decanting.
  30. Amawumbulule- debris of fallen mud wall.
  31. Amayundi- waste that is left from sisal leaves after getting sisal fibre.
  32. Amoola- waste from fruit rind or maize husks. 

  33. Ebicheere- waste of old worn out rugs
  34. Ebichokhi- waste material such as bones or seed husks removed from body during treatment of evil eyes effects.
  35. Ebikhabakhaba- waste of skin and hides
  36. Ebikolonjio- waste from broken pot.
  37. Ebikolongolio- wastes of broken soil made item during kilning.
  38. Ebikokomo- waste in form of scrap metals.
  39. Ebinyooso- waste of pumpkin leaves after removing the cuticle during leaves prepatation.
  40. Ebisaasa- left over meal eaten by visitors.
  41. Ebisakata- waste husks from coffee seed. 

  42. Ebisalisali- waste of vegetable twigs after picking off the leaves.
  43. Ebisokori- waste form maize after shelling; maize cobs
  44. Ebituwulo- waste mesh of fruits after squeezing out juice.
  45. Ekheresu- waste ash left after filtering ash-salt from it.
  46. Ekooko- waste that remains after taking good timber from a log
  47. Ekunda- waste farmland where people have migrated from.
  48. Embundu- waste flour found inside cooked ugali
  49. Embuu- waste milk from which butter has been removed; whey. Also used for watery milk.
  50. Emibia- waste pieces of meat got from the skin surface.
  51. Enchekhere- left over cereal meal that cannot be recycled for human use.
  52. Engakai- collection of waste being swept away by flooding water.
  53. Eng'unda- waste from cut weeds and other plant material.
  54. Enjenga- waste of sizable particles sieved off from flour.
  55. Esibiba- heap of same type of farm weed raked out 
  56. Esipichi- waste heap of rubbish when still raw.
  57. Esisiina- waste of decomposing heap of rubbish
  58. Oluchuata- waste diarrhoea in form of slimy mucus.
  59. Omubia- waste meat got from the skin during skinning.
  60. Omukhuchi- sawdust-like waste from bean seed thrash. Also used for sawdust.
  61. Omulaala- waste milk squeeze out of the nipple by lactating mothers just before starting to suckle a baby.
  62. Omuofulula- waste of grass removed from old house during thatching.
  63. Omusoka- waste water after distillation of chang'aa
  64. Omwera- waste of ill formed or immature cereals that drops off during process of drying cereals.
  65. Owukeeni- left over ugali


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