English
Kenya
Kenya comes from Kikuyu kere nyaga ‘white mountain’.
- Kikuyumodernkere nyaga‘white mountain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1950Kenya
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Kikuyumodernkere nyaga‘white mountain’
- Englishearliest quotation 1950Kenya
Earliest quotation: 1950, Timothy H. Cobb, The Kenya-Uganda Railway: “The object of the builders was to push on…”
The story
From the name of Mount Kenya, about which several theories exist.
Every English word from Kikuyu kere nyaga
Today it means
name A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Kenya.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Kikuyu kere nyaga / Kenya