called wa-Kavirondo: "people who sit on their heels"
* From kaba-londo: In Buganda two unusual words related to royalty were combined, kabaka, the king & namu-londo, the stool used as throne on which the king is crowned.(Both putative origins are doubtful).

A more plausible etymological origin of the name Kavirondo is from the Kalenjin language "Kap-Kirondo" meaning "the place of Reeds" denoting