Definitions
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- noun A national folk dance in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, performed in a circle.
Etymologies
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The name is taken from the word kolo, which means “wheel.”
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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The name is taken from the word kolo, which means “wheel.”
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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The name is taken from the word kolo, which means “wheel.”
Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003
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If that is your subtle way of telling me I'm kolo, then I forgive you for you know not what you have said (written).
Interview Thursday. "No Woman Should Lose her Identity" Says ALOTED 2009
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Kwere speakers also note tombo to name the matrilineage of the * - kolo matriclan.
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He explained that when you examined its subdivisions, the * - kolo comprised the * ikungugo.
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While they likely acknowledged a common language among them, the evidence suggests that the largest cohesive unit they acknowledged was the * ikungugo as a collection or group of related * - kolo.
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An * ikungugo was an even more extended kin grouping than the clans (* - kolo) recognized by proto-Ruvu speakers and their earlier ancestors.
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Ehret has proposed that in the middle of the last millennium BCE, northern and central clusters of Kaskazi speakers innovated the word * - kolo to name their mother's matriclan.
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Originally, it appears, * - kolo named the matriclan along the mother's line, but only in the Ruvu subgroup of languages did it retain this narrow meaning over the long run of history.
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