Some of the smaller septs have indeed become extinct, and others must be fast on the wane.
Messengers of the land) were next in consequence, though the chiefs of the Fisher septs wielded influence in proportion to their force of character.
The chief was followed by the septs related to his family, and by two tribes that were tributary to him.
Some sixteen exogamous septs are recognised among the Meches, of which the most important would seem to be the following:-- 1.
Among septs or sub-tribes whose names still to some extent hold the field may be placed the following:-- 1.
A rebellion of two septs in Leinster under Edward VI.
Below the kings were the chieftains of different septs or families, perhaps in one or two degrees of subordination, bearing a relation, which may be loosely called feudal, to each other, and to the Crown.
The powerful septs of the north enjoyed their liberty.
Each clan is divided into exogamous septs called balis, and it may be noted that some of the Koraga balis, such as Haledennaya and Kumerdennaya, are also found among the Mari and Mundala Holeyas.
The Nattar Kallans of Sivaganga have exogamous septs called kilai or branches, which, as among the Maravans, run in the female line, i.
For marriage purposes these four nadus constitute an endogamous section, which is sub-divided into septs or karais.
All sub-divisions of the caste, however, have these septs in common.
According to tradition, eight sub-septs are said to have existed among the Kaniyans, four of which were known as kiriyams, and four as illams.
Kadle, Kalle, and Kadale meaning Bengal gram (Cicer arietinum) have been recorded as exogamoussepts or gotras of Kurubas and Kurnis.
Round about Pudukkottai and Tanjore, the Visangu-nadu Kallans have exogamous septs called pattaperu, and they adopt the sept name as a title, e.
They also have exogamous septs or bamsams, among which are gogudiya (bells) and nolini (bamboo carrier).
Certain septsseem to have particular deities, whom they worship.
Both sections are sub-divided into a large number of exogamous septs or bedagagulu, of which the meaning, with a few exceptions, e.
The divisions of the septs and subsepts are very confused, and seem to indicate that at different times various foreign elements have been received into the community, including Rajputs of many different clans.
No explanation of the comparatively degraded position of these septs is forthcoming, but it may probably be attributed to some blot in their ancestral escutcheon.
Marriage is forbidden between the Baghmar and Baghcharia septs, the Maratha and Khatnagar and Maralwati septs and the Sonwani and Sonsonwani septs.
The names of the septs are generally Chhattisgarhi words, though a few are Gondi.
These septsare said to have been subdivided and to be still related.
A peculiarity worth noticing is that one or two of the septs have been split up into a number of others.
One of the septs is named Manakhia, which means 'man-eater,' and it is possible that its members formerly offered human sacrifices.
The whole number of septs is thus divided into three groups, the highest containing the three quasi-Rajput septsalready mentioned, the next highest the thirteen septs of Prithwipat Dangis, and the lowest all the other septs.
They have a large number of exogamous septs or bainks, which are named after all sorts of animals, plants and natural objects.
If septs other than the Jalli were to do this, they would be fined.
Like the Kallans, this sub-division has exogamous septs or kilais, e.
At Tumkur, in the Mysore Province, I came across a settlement of people called Tigala Holeya, who do not intermarry with other Holeyas, and have no exogamous septs or house-names.
The Ilayatus are divided mostly into two septs or gotras, called Visvamitra and Bharadvaja.
Like many other Telugu castes, the Gollas have exogamous septs or intiperu, and gotras.
It is said that, in the performance of these duties, the exogamous septs of the Holeya and Vakkaliga must coincide.
The Halepaiks have exogamous septs or balis, which run in the female line.
Like other Telugu castes, the Gudalas have exogamous septs or intiperulu, e.
Every member of several different septs would claim a voice in granting the lease, and the boundaries of this unoccupied land were so ill-defined that the division of the rent would lead to endless bickering and dispute.
Moreover it might well happen that the poorer members of some of the septs would be left landless, on the excuse that the lease of so large an area had eaten up the land for which they might have applied.
Noostlalums, consist of eleven tribes or septs living about the entrance of Hood's canal, Dungeness, Port Discovery, and the coast to the westward.
In like manner, we find located in various parts of Leinster thesepts that branch out from the royal line.
Its basis is found in the prominence given in Irish literature to the aristocratic kindreds and in the Irish custom of naming territorial divisions by the names of the septs to which their lords belonged.
No element of conquest enters into the settlements of the other sons of Niall or of the septsdescended from them.
The septsof Cairbre and Fiacha, which appear so prominently in the defence of the conquered territory, were among those descendants of Niall who were settled in the lordship of lands in Meath.
The septs that became possessed of territories in this way all belonged to the old ruling house of South Leinster, but the territories appropriated to them are very largely situate within the bounds of the old kingdom of North Leinster.
In the case of Ireland, though the Septs were easily defeated by the Norman soldiery, and the formal submission of their chiefs was easily extorted, the conquest was neither complete nor final.
In their hills and bogs the wanderingSepts easily evaded the Norman arms.
Septs were at first colonies of the tribe which settled on the march-land; afterwards the conversion of part of the common land into an estate in sevralty enabled the family that acquired it to become the parent of a new sept.
The flaiths of the different septs were the vassals of the rig, or chief of the tribe, and performed certain functions which were no doubt at first individual, but in time became the hereditary right of the sept.
The struggles between the different septs or clans had grown into a struggle between a number of great chieftains, under whose rule the lesser ones had come to range themselves upon all important occasions.
The names of the septs are derived either from the names of villages or from titles or nicknames.
Ten of the septs [600] consider the regular marriage of girls to be inauspicious, and the members of these simply give away their daughters without performing a ceremony.
From Raigarh a separate group of septs is reported, the names of which further demonstrate the mixed nature of the tribe.
The names of 117 septs have been recorded, and there are probably even more.
In some cases new septs have been formed by a conjunction of the names of two others, as Bagh-Daharia, Gauriya-Sonwani, and so on.
The names of 31 septs in all are reported and there are probably others.
The fact that two or three septs are named after Hindu deities may be noticed as peculiar.
If a member of one of these septs touches, keeps, kills or eats the animal which his sept reveres, he is put out of caste and comes before the panchayat.
The septs of Class A stand in relation of Mamabhai or Akomama to those of Class B.
It is not certain that without the aid of John de Bermingham and his Anglo-Normans, the Septs would have got rid of Edward Bruce.
Neither at the time of the Norman Conquest nor afterwards do the Septs appear to have shown any tendency to a union such as would have given birth to a national polity and its attendant civilization.
The Septs warred upon each other not less savagely than the conqueror warred upon them all.
In addition to these some of the Farquharsons of Braemar and small parties of lesser septs from Badenoch rallied round the standard of Montrose.
The settlers in the Scandinavian towns early came to be looked upon by the native Irish as so many septs of a tribe added to the system of petty states forming the Irish political system.
They soon mixed in the domestic quarrels of neighbouring tribes, at first selling their protection, but afterwards as vassals, sometimes as allies, like the septsand tribes of the Goidel among themselves.
Great importance is attached to gotras or exogamous septs, and it is said that the septs of the bride and bridegroom are conspicuously inscribed on the walls of a marriage house.
Pandipattu (pig catchers) and Pandikottu (pig killers) occur as exogamous septsof Odde.
The former have exogamous septs or bamsams, the names of which are also used as titles, e.
The pots are worshipped by the bridal couple, and betel is distributed among the Brahmans and Razus, of whom members of the Pusapati and Gottimukkala septs take precedence over the others.
These septs consider the buffalo sacred and will not yoke it to a plough or cart, though they will drink its milk.
Exogamus septs Each subcaste has a number of exogamous septs or clans which serve as a table of affinities in regulating marriage.
Besides the bainks or septs by which marriage is regulated, they have adopted the Brahmanical eponymous gotra-names as Kashyap, Garg, Sandilya, and so on.
Other septs are Tithi a bird, Bira a hawk, Barwan a wild dog, and so on.
But as the number of septs is rather small, the rule is not adhered to, and members of the same sept are permitted to marry so long as they do not come from the same village; the original rule of exogamy being perhaps thus exemplified.
They have also a number of exogamous septs of the usual titular and totemistic types, the few recognisable names being Marathi.
Early in the fourteenth century the Irish septs united so far as to form a joint effort to expel the English.
In this place, however, I shall confine my observations to the Septs generally termed North American Indians, the original inhabitants of the United States and the regions in the same latitude.
A division of Panikkans in the Tamil country, whose exogamous septs are known by the Malayalam name illam (house).
The Hires are all Lingayats, and are said to have sixty-six totemistic septsor gotras.
The remaining two septs are not so much caste septs as isolated groups of families.
Like the Bants and other castes of Tuluva, they are divided into exogamous septs called balis, and they have the dhare form of marriage.
I gather that Lambadi women of the Lavidia and Kimavath septs do not wear bracelets (chudo), because the man who went to bring them for the marriage of a remote ancestor died.
I have heard of other inscriptions referring to other Irish septsover the remaining gates of the town, but those I think are apocryphal.
That no man of this towne shall ostle or receive into their house at Christmasse or Easter nor no feast elles, anny of the Burkes MacWilliams, the Kellies, nor no septs elles, without the licence of the Maior and Council on payn to forfayt L5.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "septs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
