SUMMARY OF THE VARIOUS FORMS AND FRACTIONS OF MAIZE. 



A. Whole grain 

 Maize on cob or shelled 

 Maize, green, young 

 Maize, green, older. 

 Maize, green, dried 



Maize, shelled, roasted or parched 

 Maize, shelled, cooked in ashes 

 Maize, shelled, popcorn 

 Maize on cob, fresh or dry, roasted 

 Maize on cob, fresh or dry, boiled 



B. Fractions of grain 



Grain after first pounding, before sifting 

 off of bran, sometimes applied to un- 

 pounded grain 



The whole of the bran 



Large coarse flakes of bran usually thrown 



away 

 Fragments of germ, endosperm and bran 



sifted from bran on day of pounding 

 As above but separated when bran 



is dry 

 Whole grain with bran (Pericarp), 



removed 

 Partly broken grain with bran removed, 



term applied before, during and after 



soaking 

 As above but applied especially to the 



large, only slightly broken grains 

 Small pieces of grain separated after first 



pounding 



Small hard fragments remaining after 



second pounding 

 Fine flour prepared by pounding 

 Flour prepared from green maize 

 Milled meal 

 Malt prepared by soaking and sprouting 



grain 

 Small pieces of grain separated from malt 



Coarse husks strained from beer 



Green stems of maize 



Diy stems of maize , 



Empty cob after maize has been stripped 



off 

 Empty sheaths 

 Sour liquid in which maize has been 



soaked 



Ref. 13:23:27. 



Native names 

 Cimanga 



Cimanga cdchiwisi, mondokiva (C) 

 Mpesi (N), ndwadwa (Tu) 

 Cimanga cofutsa (N), muvusarere 

 CimAinga cokazinga (N) 

 Cimanga copulitsa (N) 

 Mbuluuli (N) 

 Cimanga cooca (N) 

 Cimanga cophika (N) 



Tsokwe, musoro (N), mphale (Tu), 

 cokwe (Tu) 



Madea (N), gaga (C), matimba (Y) ?, 

 makunyika (Ngu), huswa (Nk) 



Mankhupete, mankhukwa (N), misapi 

 (Y), gaga (Tu), mashasha (Ng) 



Mzoole (C), phala la madea (cooked 

 product) (N), tatita (Dedza) 



Mitama ya madea, nsece za gaga 



Cingowe (C), ntakula (Ng), ngata (?), 



nkowe (Tu), m^angungu (Y) 

 Mphale (N), mlowe (after), m^okolo 



(before), esolo (Ngu) 



Lipande (N), lupande (Tu), lusika (N). 



Dzitokola, tsesu (Dedza) cindongvxi, mi- 

 sere (N), mitama (Y), citaka (C), 

 lusenga la mcokwe (Tu). 



Mitama, misele (N), nsece (C), lusenga 

 (Y), mahenga (Ng), nsenga (Tu) 



Ufa (N), ufu (Tu), tUandi (Y) 



Ufa wa citibu (N) 



Mgayiwa (N) 



Cimera (N), cilungo (Y) 



Misere ya cimera (N), nsenga sya 



ukana (Y) 

 Ma^ika (C), masese (Ng), nsenga sya 



ukana (Y), 

 Misinde (N), miswaga (Y), mitua (Nk), 



mapekesi (Tu) 

 Mapesi 

 Citsong' ontho (N) 



Makoko 



Matsukwa (C), citiivi (Y), cisunje, 

 ntombera (Ng), mteteka (T). 



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