{"id":24231,"date":"2025-09-25T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24231"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:44:39","slug":"select-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24231","title":{"rendered":"Select Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swahili lessons I did today were about politics, and one of the words I learnt was <strong>uchaguzi<\/strong>, which means election or selection. I was able to guess it&#8217;s meaning from the context, and because the <strong>-chagu<\/strong> appears in words related to <strong>choosing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ushahidi\/4859017591\/in\/photolist-8pnJDn-dYGgX4-8psaR9-2i9wUWR-8psapW-e1hYEv-8prEUC-2cP2BrR-QrBWna-8prF81-8psaEy-63qHTR-2cP9mET-2ed3BTv-2e8ohWo-2d6THy3-S4RcBE-S4R8g5-QrBXxB-8psauo-24wk7kR-2d6TGy7-S4Rb6U-2e8oy1S-S4Re6S-QrHLv4-2ifyhTx-8psaL5-dZWT8s-8psagJ-8poZ2i-e9ZTPY-8pLexq-8pH5sR-dYfzFh-dZRd7t-5bATFg-dZWStS-dZWTLQ-8Pto6o-dZR85X-dZRaMV-dZRa9g-dZWQeb-dZR7yg-dZWKfQ-dFcCro-dZWLAA-68osPb-8pH2ZP\" title=\"Kilimani polling station\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4096\/4859017591_18fe4b09b7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Kilimani polling station\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uchaguzi<\/strong> comes from <strong>chagua<\/strong> (to choose, pick, pick out, select). Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>chaguo<\/strong> = choice, selection, the selected<\/li>\n<li><strong>kuchagua<\/strong> = to choose, elect, deform, distort<\/li>\n<li><strong>kuchaguliwa<\/strong> = to be chosen<\/li>\n<li><strong>mchaguzi<\/strong> =  fastidious person, choosy person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/swahili-dictionary.com\/swahili-english\/chagua_chagua\">https:\/\/swahili-dictionary.com\/swahili-english\/chagua_chagua<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chagua#Swahili\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chagua#Swahili<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another word that I&#8217;ve noticed appearing in various forms is <strong>(ku)sikia<\/strong>, which means to hear, obey, pay attention, feel or sense. Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>sikio<\/strong> = ear<\/li>\n<li><strong>(ku)sikiliza<\/strong> = to listen (to), to hear (a court case)<\/li>\n<li><strong>sikika<\/strong> = listening<\/li>\n<li><strong>msikilizaji<\/strong> = a listener<\/li>\n<li><strong>usikivu<\/strong> = hearing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/swahili-dictionary.com\/swahili-english\/sikia_sikia\">https:\/\/swahili-dictionary.com\/swahili-english\/sikia_sikia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sikia#Swahili\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sikia#Swahili<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been learning Swahili for a few months now, and am beginning to be able to guess the meanings of some words based on other words I know, or to at least recognise that they might be related. I feel like I&#8217;m making good progress, but there is a lot more to learn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swahili lessons I did today were about politics, and one of the words I learnt was uchaguzi, which means election or selection. I was able to guess it&#8217;s meaning from the context, and because the -chagu appears in words related to choosing. Uchaguzi comes from chagua (to choose, pick, pick out, select). Related words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,66,78],"tags":[502,500,164,138,281,501,448,503,163],"class_list":["post-24231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-swahili","category-words-and-phrases","tag-choice","tag-election","tag-english","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-selection","tag-swahili","tag-uchaguzi","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24232,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24231\/revisions\/24232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}