Meanings
nounnyayo (uncountable)
- KenyauncountableTanzaniaA person's precedent or example.
follow someone's nyayo
follow in someone's footsteps
1 more example
Chapos or no chapos, this was a good time to follow my father's nyayo and leave these innovative ladies of Kabete to their poetic cookery.
2015, Njoroge Matathia, “Wiyathi Against the Art of Mole-Catching”, in Billy Kahora, editor, Kwani? Uchaguzi '13, Nairobi: Kwani Trust, →ISBN, page 347
Origin
- Proto-Bantu[Term?]
- Swahilinyayo
- Englishnyayo
Borrowed from Swahili nyayo (“footsteps, footprints”), from Proto-Bantu [Term?].
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nyayo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nyayo
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“nyayo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nyayo. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nyayo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nyayo.
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