Cooking & Markets

1. Nchooki emoti

   Give me a pot

   Usage

   Asking for a cooking pot

   Grammar Note

   Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended. Emoti is a noun (e-) meaning "cooking pot"; it is also used for a furnace or a water jar

2. Nchooki enkalem

   Give me a knife

   Usage

   Asking for a knife to cut food

   Grammar Note

   Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended. Enkalem is a feminine noun (enk-) meaning "knife". The masculine form olalem also exists and can mean "sword"

3. Nchooki enkijiko

   Give me a spoon

   Usage

   Asking for a spoon to stir or eat with

   Grammar Note

   Composed from known words and sentence patterns; native review recommended. Enkijiko is a feminine noun (en-) meaning "spoon", from Swahili kijiko. Borrowed word; native review recommended

4. Emunyan

   Salt

   Usage

   A single word for table or cooking salt

   Grammar Note

   Written e-munyan, "fine salt as used at the table". Salt blocks for cattle to lick are different words (enabeli, emboliei)

5. Eilata

   Oil, fat

   Usage

   A single word for cooking oil or fat

   Grammar Note

   Written e-ilata, "fat, drippings, oil". It does not distinguish vegetable oil from animal fat

6. Enkima

   Fire

   Usage

   A single word for the cooking fire

   Grammar Note

   Written en-kima, "fire; cooking fire". A feminine noun

7. Nkiri

   Meat

   Usage

   A single word for meat

   Grammar Note

   The full form is in-kiri, a plural-form noun meaning "meat". The form nkiri, without the initial i-, is more frequent

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