agwei
noun F
plural: agwean
1
a new crop of millet. (The heathen ceremony is as follows: the priest - emuron - takes the first morsel, after which the others do the same (take a morsel)
2
the ladle with which the meal was stirred is placed above the doorway, for the children take the new meal next morning. Before the priest and the people partake of the food, he makes the sign of the cross on himself, smearing first himself and the people with the food and then throwing it in lumps to the four winds – north, east, south, and west)
• aikony agwei
to taste first millet meal
• koom emuron kobu aitokony itunga agwei
call the heathen priest to bless the first millet meal
See also:
angorot
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