[Jaugenya]

Originally Posted by jasakwa

Where did the name of these towns originate from?
Nairobi
Mombasa
Nakuru
kisumu
Eldoret

Bondo where i come from originated from "bondo" that means "dry patches"

bondo actually used to be dry not as green as it is these days.
Jaugenya please explain the origin of Siaya

Jasakwa Omera,

Hiyo jina ya siaya imeshinda mimi...I don´t know this jathurwa,,..

[BOBOSHANTI]

Originally Posted by Mydunda

What happened to all the african names that were used before the jungus came?

majority of kenyan places have kenyan origins,but ofcourse the mzungu had to make his mark sometimes renaming landmarks and places.but the natives then suffered from inferiority complex and took up the mzungu ones even when they were as a result of shrubbing their language eg mount kenya

[nettle]

Kiambu is simply the home of Mbuu - one of the famous families of the Amboi clan. It is pronunced with a long ending vowel not the short one for a scream.

[nettle]

The name Dagoretti is derived from one of the streams from the Kikuyu springs, ga-taguretti which later joins other streams to form the Nairobi River. At the source of the river there abound a certain plant that the Maasai called 'entiakulet'with variable pronunciation and spelling - which the Kikuyu corrupted easily and the Mzungu quickly gave the present spelling.

[Tripple Seven]

I know for sure that when the Kenya-Uganda railway workers arrived at a place with cool waters, they asked the local people who told them something enkare naerobi. They they made that point a resting point and later called it nairobi. Kisumu's origin am not sure but for those who lived further inland. Kisumu was a place of plenty so people went to look for food 'kisuma' or be given in luo so then it developed to now Ksm. Homa Bay was a bay, and extension of a large expanse of water inland. Then there was this huge hill that was known all over in luoland 'god rahuma' which was simply called 'god huma' translating into the hill that is known far and yonder. So the white man then saw this bay next to a large hill, so then they called the bay HOMA BAY twenging on the huma since their noses and dialects could let them pick on the 'u' well.Today god huma is known as homa hills and overlaps most of the skyline in former south nyanza. Homa bay, is a town that is slowly fading, am not not sure if that might be coz of reasons of insanity!

[nettle]

Kibera's Line Saba has nothing linear or to do the number seven- it is an English corruption of Lenga Shabaha due to a Kenya Rifle shooting range at the area.

[nettle]

Nyahururu is the Olmaa name equivalent to Ndururumo (Kikuyu) meaning for Thompson falls.

[nettle]

Ondiri has nothing to do with old link my friend. It is a Kikuyu corruption of the Irish settler's O'Derry (Derrick) Farm a contemporary of Nichollsen (Naikorothi) todays Kidfarmaco -Kikuyu Division Farmers Company and Lengenny Farm todays Regen.

[jasakwa]

Kisumu was derived from a luo word meaning long treak

kariako in nairobi originated during the colonial times.wazunguz were being carried on carts in that location.so it originally sounded carreir carts transformed to kariako

[jasakwa]

Originally Posted by Jaugenya

Jasakwa Omera,

Hiyo jina ya siaya imeshinda mimi...I don´t know this jathurwa,,..

ok jathurwa,i will look it up from my elderly uncle.