ifyalways:

^Ezeagu,no we are not giving up now.Chekasia uburu gi,afterall you devote much more enery and time chasing Ileke idi.lol

Btw,ChinenyeM is yet to contribute.

Ify nwannem, this will take sometime because my brains are not adding up.lol

@Eze lion, I didnt know u have a thing for ILEKE IDI!!

@Ify, sorry o. Ihe sukulu jidere m. Well, I don't know about Izugbe, but in Ngwa, when it comes to challenging someone to a competition/contest/contention of some kind, we use ima aka, and if it is a challenge in an argument, or of someone's opinion, then it would be agugo.

ifyalways:

@Odumchi,Ikuputa sounds more of "to bringf forth/to showcase/to unveil" etc
A gam ekuputa nwa ohurum n'izu uka n'abia nu.=I would be christening my new baby next week.

@Nri priest,Nnwale ule=examination.Nnwale=Test/try

Nice try guys but we can do better.

Ok how about itu? Or inwa?
Ex: I na anwam? I na atum? (are you trying challenging me?)

Inwa is more like daring/tempting, although people often use it, in a sense, to convey challenging.

I think ChineyeM was able to capture it.

Challenge(to a fight,an argument etc)=Ima aka.
Kama Chi,"agugo" in Igbo Izugbe =deny.

Nri priest,ah then anya gi erughi ala.If u want this thread to get to 20 pages in 2 hours bring in Ileke idi and that is when u will notice that Ezeagu can speak grammar,do research,cull up and fabricate stories.lol Dude can stay up all nite and day arguing or engaging Ileke.Guess he gets some sort of satisfaction that way.

ROFL,Ezeagu biko no mind me.Ileke na fine girl,u sef fine bobo.

ifyalways:

Challenge(to a fight,an argument etc)=Ima aka.
Kama Chi,"agugo" in Igbo Izugbe =deny.

Oh okay.

ifyalways:

I think ChineyeM was able to capture it.

Challenge(to a fight,an argument etc)=Ima aka.
Kama Chi,"agugo" in Igbo Izugbe =deny.

Nri priest,ah then anya gi erughi ala.If u want this thread to get to 20 pages in 2 hours bring in Ileke idi and that is when u will notice that Ezeagu can speak grammar,do research,cull up and fabricate stories.lol Dude can stay up all nite and day arguing or engaging Ileke.Guess he gets some sort of satisfaction that way.

ROFL,Ezeagu biko no mind me.Ileke na fine girl,u sef fine bobo.

Are you sure you're not mistaking me for someone else, because this one seems like akiko ogboma.

Capitalise? How would you say that. As in text, "Capitalise letter I".

ezeagu:

Capitalise? How would you say that. As in text, "Capitalise letter I".

Capitalizing is specific to western society and it has to do with their Latin script. It's a highly cultural expression. In most other places, capitalization means nothing. That being said, the approximate way to express that, in my opinion, would be to just say: write big the letter "i"

That would be my guess.

Capital letter=Nnukwu mkpuru okwu
Capital I=Nnukwu I

Or what are you on about?
Hapu okwu gi na Ileke gi ugbua.I'll remind you of this when u start ur ileketism soon.

Nice thread!
@Nri Priest: "Onitsha-Ado" did borrow words&aspects of culture from Benin,IMO.D difference of d Onicha dialect - d deep 'v' over a light 'f', 'l' over 'r',etc.D Bini "Igue" &burial words especially hav valid interpretations in Bini,rather than the present Onicha variants(eg. d "iyasele" example given)
My views from my understanding of literature written by one of d Obis.

P.S. Noticed that present day Obis/Igwes are very exposed?Foreign-schooled professionals and such?Onisha,Obosi,Asaba,etc.
D Ozo title looking more attractive to a better calibre of ppl,

^Intresting.
Lets pick it one at a time. . .
what is Igue in Onicha lingo and what do you think "Iya aselle" means to an Onicha man?

What is the connecting dot between "ve" eg ive(ife) that Onichans use and Bini?Plus last I checked,most parts of Idemili down to Alor use "r" in place of "l",all of them had Bini roots ?

Lastly,you are neither in the romance section nor sending an sms to your pal,type in easily legible letters.Thank you.

I hope this thread has not run it's course o. I would like to see more creations.

Bumping this up; looking to see more coinages/creations.

What about door handle?

^^^^
Aka-uzo.

Profile.

^Nke a adighi mfe ma otu.

I would be waiting for folks to make attempts at that.

ChinenyeN:

Profile.

What type?

Let's do. . .

Profile, noun, set of attributes

Profile, noun, brief account/description

ChinenyeN:

Let's do. . .

Profile, noun, set of attributes

Profile, noun, brief account/description

Profile as in appearance can be udidi meaning likeness, shape, or appearance.

odumchi: Profile as in appearance can be udidi meaning likeness, shape, or appearance.

Alright. Thanks.

Profile, noun, set of attributes, likeness, appearance, udidi.

What of the second Profile? Also, would it be possible to get a single word/contraction?

Isn't a brief account/description already "akukọ" ?

Ex: Describe it to me: "Kowara mu ya"
Ex: What is your account: "Gini bu akuko gi?"

i must commend everyone of you here for trying to revive our dieing language of which most of our educated elite have refused to teach their children.
there are alot of items in english language that i fund very difficult to pronounce,words like:

table stabilizer bearing
calender ball bulb etc...
this are just a few,althuogh,'amara m na enwere okwu n'bite site n'asusu ndi ozo.
igbo nwe mmadu ekele m nu ooo!!!

Akuko for profile a dabaghi nke oma n'uche m.I even wanted to suggest "akara onye" kama even that has its own limitations too and does not fit aptly.

I have a feeling ChinenyeM has a better word in mind but just working us up.Lol
Chi,biko gwa anyi.

Lol I don't have any better words in mind (at least I don't consider them better words), but I have thought that expressions somehow deriving from iko (ex. okoma-ihu, ihunkowa etc.) would work best.

I think Odumchi is thinking in the right direction. Just like how iko gave us akuko, I believe it can also give us "profile", in some way or form.

Ihunkowa for me.

Alright, so ihunkowa it is, until a more suitable expression is conceived of.

Okay, next one. Traffic.

Traffic the verb or the noun?

Noun.
I guess I should start denoting parts of speech then.

Ihunkowa for profile is not bad to me.

I miss this thread since it's very useful. Let's revive it.

ifyalways: Imela.

@All,anyone ever heard of "agbiri or egbiri" for utara akpu?My paternal grandmom always used 'egburi/egbiri/agbiri'

I don't know about 'agbiri/egbiri' but I know 'igburu'. 'Igburu' is the Ututu word for 'cassava'.

ChinenyeN: Noun.
I guess I should start denoting parts of speech then.

'Traffic' the noun can be 'ekpokpo uzo' (ex: uzo o na ekpo-ekpo?), 'ekwokwo uzo' (the same way that nmiri na ekwo ekwo), or 'ejiji uzo' (ex: uzo o jiri eji; meaning ''is the road backed up?'').