"A few weeks since I spent a night at the great kraal of Dumisa, a powerful old chief, twenty miles inland from here, who is said to have obtained his power by his prowess as a hunter, in the days when elephants and lions were the terror of the people..." (Missionary Herald, at Home and Abroad, v.69, 1873)

DUMISA, caus. fr.  1. To make or cause a noise or sound; to become very loud or noisy, as of loud thundering;—2. To honor; to speak highly of; to speak with much respect of, as: wa m dumisa umlungu wake, i.e.: he spoke much in praise of his civilized master;—3. To recite the honors or praises of others, especially of people of former ages. (A Zulu-Kafir Dictionary, Döhne, 1857).