26/06/2025
LIPULELO ZA SILUYANA NI MALOKO
=============================
By KUNUNA DAILY
1. wacila n;gumbili oukele mulipumo n;gumbuli nikufa nakuyoya (when you fear to fight or battle in a war you must return to you mother s womb because fighting is death & life)
2. Waleya mulume ka wa leya sinu. Ku leya ifuba ya mwalanyi.
(Talking about conceiving a son).
If you have given birth to a son, You have given birth to nothing, but food for maggots in the wilderness. ( This implies men will leave home and die in battle somewhere far from home)
3. Liywa limweya ka lyolo ndopu.
(One day does not make an elephant rot) Lizazi li li limwi ha li
bolisi tou. (Meaning, be patient you can wait).
4. Ku ibola ka sawelo. (Asking is not ignorance). Ku buza ha ki bukuba.
5. Simangu olufuna mutwi wa Nakaywe. Osinga kulya ku sinda ba silambo. Ote nanabi mulwendo nji na Simangu mupa.
Simangu ni Ndoo luyoya nyama.
Kulya, kufuna, Mutwi, Ku singa, ba silambo, Nabi, Mu lwendo, kwenda kwa balume, Mupa, Kuyoya, nyama, kuleya (Very familiar, right ). This is more from Kwangwa version of Siluyana.
There is Makoma version also.
6. Wa toya siwi no kulyata. Mukutulu mwana simbai, ikalya
munyanganya kwanda na mulala na mukosa. ( Doesn't this sound like Icibemba? Ikalya munyanganya. Doesn't eat what is moving. Only what is; Namulala, na mukosa. Sleeping.
7. Wa mumona maoyo a tunda kuanwa. Wa lyambwa ni mwana na mukuka. (Charity begins at home). If one is respectful he or she was raised that way from home.
8. Most of our names in Barotseland are Siluyana based, and those names
have striking resemblance in meaning to other Bantu languages like Icibemba, Silunda, Sikaonde, Simbunda, Chitonga, Kiswahili, Kisii, Kinyarwanda, Luya etc.
Take for example:
-Wamundila. Just as it sounds.
Wa mundila. One born on the way.
-Nalwendo. Same thing.
Lwendo Born on the journey.
From number 7:
Ku mona....... To see
Maoyo...........respect
Atunda..........coming from
Kuanwa........where he is from.
8. -Names Continued.
-Kand
