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  • Each community, as we have seen, had been organized in groups of five or more households, called kumi; and the heads of the households forming a kumi elected one of their number as kumi-gashira, or group-chief, directly [169] responsible to the higher authority.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Swahili · Rwanda: Miaka kumi na tano baada ya mauaji ya Kimbari

    Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009

  • Let's not forget that LL is also working on opensourcing the servercode, and don't also forget that they are working on teleporting to Opensim, so what kumi is saying will soon be possible.

    Linden Lab giveth and taketh away - Developing an exit strategy Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • Nilifika Tanzania mwezi wa tisa, mwaka jana na nilikaa Morogoro kwa muda wiki kumi pamoja na familia Watanzania.

    Only Beyonces Drink Chocolate Milk in TZ Michelle 2005

  • Nilifika Tanzania mwezi wa tisa, mwaka jana na nilikaa Morogoro kwa muda wiki kumi pamoja na familia Watanzania.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Michelle 2005

  • Nicholas was in the classic first position of yoroi kumi-uchi, originally grappling in armour but today used quite effectively when one was dressed in Western street clothes.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • [Talitha kumi.] "Rabbi Jochanan saith, We remember when boys and girls of sixteen and seventeen years old played in the streets, and nobody was offended with them."

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • There were also heads of guilds (kumi-gashira) and representatives of farmers (hyakushodai) who participated in administering the affairs of a village.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • The kumi was accountable for the conduct of each and all of its members; and each member was in some sort responsible for the rest.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • "Denna me shom kumi jinescro, ne tute," pendas Merlinos.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

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