Sukn.adj.
/suːk/, U.S. /suk/ A. n.
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a. An East African people who inhabit an area on the Uganda-Kenya border; a member of this people.
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b. The Nilotic language spoken by the Suk.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Nilo-Saharan languages > [adjective] > Nilotic > of or relating to Nilotic languages
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Turkana1894
Lango1902
Suk1902
Teso1902
Luo1909
Nandi1909
Masai1947
Kalenjin1957
1902 H. H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate ii. xix. 847 The Sūk, like the Turkana, pierce the lower lip... The Sūk women sometimes shave the head.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 541/2 The languages spoken in the Uganda Protectorate belong to the following stocks..Masai (Bari, Masai, Elgumi, Turkana, Sūk, &c.).
1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. vii. 163 The Nandi and Suk may be said to live in garden settlements, each man having his own homestead in or near his fields of grain.
1936 Discovery June 171/2 The Nandi, Masai, Turkana, and Sūk are perhaps the best-known tribes of this group.
1947 E. Afr. Ann. 1946–7 43/1 Nilo-Hamitic tribes such as the Nandi, Suk and Kipsigis.
1953 M. Trowell & K. P. Wachsmann Tribal Crafts Uganda i. 50 The Sebei are members of another branch of the Nilo-Hamites, being very closely related to the Suk-Nandi group in Kenya.
1963 Times 6 May 19/6 Mr. Jomo Kenyatta, president of the Kenya African National Union, today reminded a crowd already nursed to a happy pitch of electoral enthusiasm by the chanting and dancing of Suk and Kalenjin tribesmen.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 347/2 Linguists often divide the Nilotic languages into a western group..and a southern group, including Nandi and Suk.
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