Pokot
/pəˈkɒt/noun
1A member of an East African Nilotic people inhabiting parts of western Kenya and eastern central Uganda; = Suk.
2The Southern Nilotic language of this people, belonging to the dialect cluster of Kalenjin within the East Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan family.
adjective
Of, relating or belonging to, or designating this people or their language.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Geographical Journal. From Southern Nilotic Pokot, self-designation.
- deadly sin
- dead man
- deadman
- dead man's fingers
- dead-man's float
- dead man's handle
- dead man's pedal
- dead march
- dead marine
- dead meat
- dead men's shoes
- deadness
- dead-nettle
- dead on
- dead on one's feet
- deadpan
- dead president
- dead reckoning
- dead ringer
- deadrise
- Dead Sea
- Dead Sea scrolls
- dead set
- dead shot
- deadstick landing