oyibo pepper nko'

Can someone give us the history of this alleged "pepper"?

Dem go still fight for this topic today. for me oyinbo sounds like a yoruba language.

Tribalism in evrytin
D op just enlightened us and ppl are making it tribalistic

ajoguegbe: What's the origin of Oga is it Igbo or Yoruba?

Oga is a Yoruba word. It means Boss

Waspy: Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.

comprehension = 0.

Op please stop all this your theories,whit man will not call himself what you call him,in yoruba land white men were not called oyinbo alone,eebo was also used to called them,i don't think it's a borrowed language from the Igbos given the fact that we don't have any recorded contact before the 18th century.

blesszzy: Dem go still fight for this topic today. for me oyinbo sounds like a yoruba language.

Did you read the write-up?

LOL, there was a similar thread like this before,see the way Igbos and Yorubas were throwing blows at each other over which tribe came up with the term... jheeze

oyinbo

homerac7:


Alubosa is part of Nigera north-south acculturation . ALUBOSA is onion in Igbo

Nah, Yabasi is onion in Igbo

Afrocatalyst:

comprehension = 0.

masseratti: Op please stop all this your theories,whit man will not call himself what you call him,in yoruba land white men were not called oyinbo alone,eebo was also used to called them,i don't think it's a borrowed language from the Igbos given the fact that we don't have any recorded contact before the 18th century.

Eebo is a shirt form of Oyinbo to the Yorubas. The thing is elder people are the ones who use it. Younger people rarely do.

NaLaugh:

Did you read the write-up?

Nope....

This analysis might be the reason why they call the white people. Oyinbo.

This is very informative. Thanks.

[quote
author=Waspy]Stop deceiving yourself OP .... Ya'll don't
have to make it look as if Igbos gat things to prove always or needs to
be seen as winners/contenders in some kind of imaginary rat race. Stop
the unneccesary aggrandizement . Its kinda annoying and
basically for losers.

For the records tho....Bini and Yorubas had an earlier and longer
contact with the whites.. It would make more sense if we agree that they
came up with a name for the whites. In fact, the whites wouldnt have
called themselves a misnomer of Onyi Igbo, why would they call
themselves that or learn to call Igbo pple that??. This is not to add
the fact that they felt the slavery blow more too.[/quote]

Now, that's some perspective...

Igbo an ibo doesn't have dsame pronounciation in igbo dialect......

CharlieMaria: Picture?

please what did you drink last.

In Yoruba meaning of Oyibo goes thus:

Oyi: wind, cold, breeze

Bo: peel, bleach, pale

Oyibo - (someone)
wind/cold/breeze has peeled/bleached/paled.

By all standards, Oyibo is a Yoruba coinage.

lepasharon: LOL, there was a similar thread like this before,see the way Igbos and Yorubas were throwing blows at each other over which tribe came up with the term... jheeze

as in eehn... this tribalism tire me oh.
even self in the real world there's no much(if at all there is) hatred between igbos n yorubas.
na for here all of them dey fight with keyboards.. nonsense people

Oyibo most likely is Benin - Yoruba in origin. Binis call it Ebo a little different from other Nigerian tribes. I suspect Yorubas added the extensions to make the word Oyibo. Also Binis had the earliest and most interactions with the white man.

somebody answer me these.
why are most of you arzelicking the whitemen.
did they so much wash your brains?
everybody clamouring for this and that about the man.
sometime ago it was an article claining we igbos are from israel what nonsene.
this one people dragging who named the white man oyibo.

na wa oh.
y'all should grow up please.












Note: everywhere i use you(plural) I don't mean everyone but majority. peace

Oyibo Bolt3

careytommy: OP, if you are going to copy a topic verbatim, give some credit to the [url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyibo] SOURCE [/url]

nerodenero: The OP is a joke.Lifting a writeup that isn't his and not acknowledging the source is criminal in nature......

Good point guys, we should avoid plagiarism on NL

@Bolt3 :- Nice thread but please do consider including the source (Wikipedia) as provided by careytommy

NaLaugh: oyibo pepper nko'

Can someone give us the history of this alleged "pepper"?

my pure guess is that because many westerners are not able to handle pepper/spice in their food hence the name "oyibo pepper"

Nairalandi: pls how can this solve our current Ebola palava .? op.pls answer me

because of Ebola we should not discuss any other topic? Abeg bros, this is NairaLand and not EbolaLand

homerac7:

It does not in anyway discredit the postulation of OP.

Alubosa is part of Nigera north-south acculturation . ALUBOSA is onion in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba along with hundreds of other minority languages. Same as box for APOTI in Yoruba, AKPATI in Igbo and AKWATI in Hausa. Rice is SHINKFA in Hausa while it is OSHIKPA/OSHIPAKA in Igbo. Numerous words as such aren't peculiar to a language.

albasa is Hausa.

Some igbo people sha. Dey act like Dem dey win medals on behalf of their people with all these threads. Hardworking igbos are out in d real world making money

omowolewa: Nice one

But I think 'Behkkeh' is the Ibo word for Oyinbo.

Or can we say 'Alubosa' (Onion) has a Ibo origin due to the fact that there is a word 'Alu' in Ibo language?


If 'Onye-Ibo' is person from Ibo land,

'Onye-Behkkeh' should be the Ibo translation of person from western nation
(No offence intended pls).

Not sure of the OPs analogy but you got him all wrong. What he's saying is that Igbos adopted oyibo as a kind of making fun of the whites. More like in the South, East and western Nigeria any man from northen Nigeria is called "aboki". But aboki simply mean "friend" in the north. Get it?.
What the OP is saying is plausible.

Oyi bo = yoruba words. However, the word Afin (Albino) nko?

Mehn my first trend to make front page am so happy. Sorry for not adding the source am new to nairaland.

LaurelP: Tribalism in evrytin
D op just enlightened us and ppl are making it tribalistic

I don't think this is a case of tribalism, but more a case of trying to correct what might be misinformation on the part of the OP. Now we have two perspectives. Maybe at the end of the day, we will have one.

[quote author=Bolt3]
IN A NUTSHELL WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO SAY IS THAT THE WORD oyinbo ORIGINATED FROM igbo LAND? CONGRAT GO TAKE COLLECT MONEY FROM CENTRAL BANK!