ABORIGINAr. i'LACE NAMKS. 769 



Cicira Ndumnduni 



Dadamba Ngcagca 



Elucwecwe N'^qungqn 



Gqaqala Nqanqadu 



Gqogqora Nqeqeni 



Malepelepe Oweqwe 



Nconcolora Owilis^wili 



Ncise from Ncincise. 



Ncolosi from Nconcolosi. 



Nqadu from Nqanqadu. 



(c) Compound Names. 



In the case of compound names, it is necessary to distinguish 

 between those which are simple and those which are comple.N. 

 Included in the first category are those which are compounded as 

 between two words, examples of which are U m^sunvubu , Utn- 

 zimkuiu, derived respectively from iim-Zi. a group of houses, a 

 village, town, and im-l^ubii^ a hoppopotamus, and knhi, meaning 

 great, large. Other such names are Umtingivevu, from um-Ti, a 

 tree, and Ngivcvu, meaning grey; Ndlunkuiu, a most interestmg 

 name, signifying literally " large house,'' and being, as a matter 

 of fact, the name of the Cape sparrow. Passer melanurus (st. 

 Mull.), derived originally from the largeness, of its nest; Nta- 

 bengivc, " the mountain of the tiger " ; Ntabanknlu, " the great 

 mountain," and many others. 



Amongst the complex names are those which are expressed 

 in a phrase. One of the most interesting of these is Eliinyaweni 

 hvenkukn, " at the foot of the fowl," a name derived from the 

 threefold impress of the surveyor's mark (the arrow head), 

 which in the early days reminded the natives of the " spoor " left 

 on the ground by a fowl ! This, however, is fully dealt with in 

 my Tsolo Place-names paper. Another such name is Ubala 

 ainatwa, " writing of Bushmen,'' a name given to the place where 

 the Bushman paintings occur in Tsolo District. Precisely what is 

 wrong with the name is not easy to determine, though Mr. 

 Godfrey draws my attention to it. On the same principle as that 

 illustrated by the previous name, the locative would be more 

 satisfying. 



A third illustration of the kind is to be found in u~Kalolwc 

 iiyanga. from ii-kalo, a chasm, and i-Nyanga, the moon. In this 

 connection Godfrey's note on inkalo is worthy of attention. He 

 says that it means " a gap, neck, or opening in a mountain ridge ; 

 the upper part of a long rising land, elevation, or eminence of 

 ground; a ridge: inkalo yentaba aph inyanga itshona kona, a neck 

 or opening in the mountain, where the moon is visible at setting; 

 the hollow in the crescent-shaped moon." (P. 170 ) 



(d) Pairs. 



Before passing from this section of place-names, we desire 

 to draw attention to the large number of paired names. Some of 



