Kavirondon.

1870 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 40 308 At Kaverond..there are villages. The people of this place are called Wa-Kaverond. They are the same as the Wa-Kosóva, only a different tribe or clan. The language is one.

1873 C. New Life E. Afr. xxiii. 468 Captain Speke gives only a few words of the Gani dialect..and there are the very words which are used by the Wakavirondo for the same things.

1873 C. New Life E. Afr. xxiii. 526 A Table showing the variations in the dialects and languages spoken by some of the tribes…Kisuaheli..Masai, Kavirondo.

1882 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. New Ser. 4 743 The town of the Kavirondo chief Sendēge.

1882 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. New Ser. 4 744 Mr. Wakefield's vocabulary of the Kavirondo language clearly shows that this tribe does not belong to the Bantu family... Two islands lie off Kisumo... Both are cultivated by Kavirondo.

1885 J. Thomson Through Masăi Land (ed. 3) xi. 475 Their shields are of all shapes and sizes, though the characteristic Kavirondo form is enormous in dimensions and weight.

1885 J. Thomson Through Masăi Land (ed. 3) xi. 478 We picked the bones of fat Kavirondo fowls.

1885 J. Thomson Through Masăi Land (ed. 3) xi. 485 The Wa-kavirondo are apparently a homogeneous race... Yet..there were two totally distinct languages. The inhabitants of..Lower Kavirondo..speak a language resembling..that spoken by the Nile tribes, while those of Upper Kavirondo speak a Bantu dialect.

1902 C. W. Hobley Eastern Uganda i. 13 No Kavirondo marries in his own clan, and the degeneracy due to inbreeding is obviated.

1902 C. W. Hobley Eastern Uganda vi. 88 There are many striking resemblances between the Nyamwezi language and the Bantu language of Kavirondo.

1921 Manual on E. Afr. (Church Missionary Soc.) 13 Leaving the coast.., we come to the Nilotic tribes—the Masai..and Nilotic Kavirondo. The greatest tribe of all in point of numbers is the Kavirondo, of which there are about 9,000,000; but it is divided by language into two groups, Nilotic and Bantu.

1950 G. W. B. Huntingford & C. R. V. Bell E. Afr. Background (ed. 2) xiv. 111 Kavirondo, this is properly a name of the Nilotic Luo people in Kenya. According to one native explanation, it was applied by the people of one side of Kavirondo Gulf to the people of the other side as a term of abuse, derived from a Luo word rondo ‘to deceive’... From this restricted area it has become applied to (1) The Nilotic Luo as a whole;..(3) the Bantu inhabitants of this area.

1956 Linguistic Survey Northern Bantu Borderland (Internat. Afr. Inst.) I. iii. 129 The northern corner of the ‘Bantu Kavirondo pocket’.

1956 Linguistic Survey Northern Bantu Borderland (Internat. Afr. Inst.) I. iii. 130 A note on ‘Bantu Kavirondo’. This name refers to a pocket of Bantu-speaking peoples between the..‘Nilotic Kavirondo’..and the Jopadhola and speakers of Nandi dialects.

1928 Daily Express 31 July 4 The handsomest [bird] is the Kavirondo or golden-crested crane, kept as a pet by some native tribes in Kenya, a gorgeous stork-like bird plumaged in browns, blues, greys, and gold.

1938 F. J. Jackson Birds Kenya Colony I. 317 The East African Crowned Crane, known locally as the Straw-crested, Golden-crested, and sometimes the Kavirondo crane, is found throughout Kenya colony... Why it ever became known as the Kavirondo crane is a mystery.