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nyayo

nyayo noun: a person's precedent or example.

Noun

nyayo (uncountable)

  1. (Kenya, Tanzania) A person's precedent or example.
    • follow someone's nyayo
    • Chapos or no chapos, this was a good time to follow my father's nyayo and leave these innovative ladies of Kabete to their poetic cookery.2015, Njoroge Matathia, “Wiyathi Against the Art of Mole-Catching”, in Billy Kahora, editor, Kwani? Uchaguzi '13, Nairobi: Kwani Trust, →ISBN, page 347

Origin of nyayo

Borrowed from Swahili nyayo (“footsteps, footprints”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Questions about nyayo

What does nyayo mean?
Nyayo means a person's precedent or example.
What part of speech is nyayo?
Nyayo is a noun.

Words near nyayo in the dictionary

  1. Nyaturucha
  2. Nyaturuwil
  3. Nyaunglebin
  4. Nyawarungu
  5. Nyaya
  6. nyayo
  7. nybble
  8. nybbles
  9. Nyberg
  10. Nybergs
  11. nybl

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