Keiskie, Keiskie(Berge), Keiskie(Rivier)
Noise' is farm no Clw. Q. 2-29, District Calvinia. The west is 'Annex Keiskie' No. Civ. Q. 31-3 and 'Annex Keiskie' No. 1919-41-2599. These farms lie on the 'Keiskieberge' southwest of Calvinia. On the eastern slopes of the Keiskieberge, the 'Keiskiere River', a western tributary of the War Kloof River. On the corresponding topographical map 1968 also the names 'undercino', 'Keiskie's gate' and 'Keiskie's angle' Sharing Ceeco-cod fern and not 'kei-skie'. On the 1:50 000 topographical series 1964 Skin 3119 DB Keiskie we see just south of the source of 'Keiskie's angle' the peak 'Sandkop'. At the north of the Keiskieberge, just north of the border of the farm 'Nois', there is another 'sandhead'. 'So Keiskie' lie between the two sand heads. The ceis-complex and the sand heads form topographically a unit, we believe there is also a linguistic relationship. Then the first member of the Khoekhozen name, viz. 'Keis-', such as Nama 11Ke- [11khae] = '(River) Sand' (Kr.-. 1969 NW 220), and the member -kie maybe like Nama ǀ (k) onion- = 'stone', 'Mountain' (Hott 340), here 'head'. If, again, we have the phenomenon that the Afrikaans component of a toponimic core group translates the Khoekhoen component. The statement is supported by the fact that there are still other place names in the area is what has 'sand' as component, cf. Leistner & Morris 1976 Annals 433.