funmijoyb:
Yeeeebos must u focefully attached to other people's culture and hate yours?

Here are the words igbo writers claims is theirs all over the internet:

1.Oyinbo or Oyibo; Peeled skin or white Animals
2. Akata; Wild, Sturborn, black American or Nigerian American
3.Ogbeni Mr Man
4.Ashewo, asewo or Ashawo.
5.Wahala Problem
6.Abi; "Question mark"
7.Shebi; is it?
8.Pele; please
9.Omo; Child
10.Oja; Market
11.Shey is it?
12.Mumu
13, Ode

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somegirl1:


You've conveniently avoided my question regarding the yoruba word for "trouble".
Even when Igbos borrow/ acquire words from where they are domiciled for the sake of integration or because we simply never had such words in our language, we never completely throw ours away.

Btw yorubawood and hausawood are not nollywood. They are spin-offs of nollywood, formed by Igbos, which was and still is predominantly Igbo.

The popularity of yoruba movies stops at the Benin border and Hausa movies are hardly ever watched outside of the north but nollywood movies are appreciated universally and nollywood actors known across the country.

Allosaurus:
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Useless, oblong-headed sshemale from the South West! How have the Igbos stolen Yoruba words? None of those words can even be found in a standard Igbo Literature book. Shame on you and your useless, hateful Yoloba family

Onijagidijagan:

Igbo doesnt have film industry, where is it in Enugu, imo, Nnewi, Onitcha? say lagos na lagoon u go land

Onijagidijagan:

are you blind when ur igbo brothers were saying d word
Oga
Ashawo
Oyinbi or oyibo
Akata
Wahala
Akara

are all ibo word? of which non is Igbo word

somegirl1:


You've made no sense

Allosaurus:
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Fvck you! They're Yoruba words and generally used. What about egusi, oha and ugu? Are they not Igbo words that are used by many? Go and rest, please. You don't even know what you're saying

Onijagidijagan:

Fucck you more! Check the previous comments you will see where your brothers/sisters are claiming
Oyinbo, Akata, Whala as theirs to popularize the igbo tribe. that's theft.
any igbo who has lived in yoruba land for a very long time will know this words are ours not yeeeebos

how can they claim the word Oyinbo came from Onye Igbo? this clowns are funny

Onijagidijagan:

answer me now? where is igbo film industry located? simple question

Onijagidijagan:

answer me now? where is igbo film industry located? simple question

bigfrancis21:


Lagos (Alaba), Anambra (Upper Iweka Onitsha) and Aba (pound road and Ogbor Hill).

Nollywood is a tripod balance across all 3 states mentioned.

bigfrancis21:


Lagos (Alaba), Anambra (Upper Iweka Onitsha) and Aba (pound road and Ogbor Hill).

Nollywood is a tripod balance across all 3 states mentioned.

ezeagu:
Weak reply bro. You for just use style unfollow the thread.

Onijagidijagan:

Fucck you more! Check the previous comments you will see where your brothers/sisters are claiming
Oyinbo, Akata, Whala as theirs to popularize the igbo tribe. that's theft.
any igbo who has lived in yoruba land for a very long time will know this words are ours not yeeeebos

how can they claim the word Oyinbo came from Onye Igbo? this clowns are funny

scholes0:


What do you call Horse?
How come the Yoruba got their word for Horse from Arabic and you didnt?

bigfrancis21:


Corn in Igbo language is 'oka'. Isn't corn in Yoruba supposed to be 'agbado' or something? Why are you suddenly ignoring the central yoruba words for these items, which are supposed to be the standard Yoruba words for those items, and claiming the Igbo words as yours?

Please, akamu is not a Yoruba word. Stop this language theft. Agidi also is not Yoruba. In Igboland, there are 2 different types of Agidi, the white agidi and the reddish type called Agidi Jollof. I never liked Agidi for one day but I grew up hearing my grandmothers refer to it as only Agidi. Igbos have just one word for Agidi and Akamu, Yorubas have multiple of them indicating a borrowing of these words into the language. Just as they borrowed wahala from Arabic. Languages often borrow from one another and your people may have borrowed the word from the popular Nigerian usage which comes from Igbo.

Do not let me school you on the seniority of the Igbo civilization over the Yoruba civilization. Because if I am ready, it will take up the entire next 3 pages of this thread.

Yorubas cannot even provide proof that these words are theirs. Most popular soups and food in Nigeria today are all of Igbo origin: Ogbono, Egwusi, Okwuru, Ora, Okazi, Utazi etc.

Or maybe you'll tell me that 'love wan tin tin' (from love nwa nti nti in Igbo) in some Yorubas songs nowadays is Yoruba too?

macof:


I just don't believe "Asiri" as yoruba say it came from another language.

jumissy:
Asiri is definitely a Yoruba word. Most Yoruba words you can break it down to the etymology (unless it's such an ancient Yoruba word that the breakdown is not known and in that case there is usually no other word for it Yoruba). In Yoruba asiri means something that was lifted to uncover, to see. As in something that was covered and the covering was lifted to discover something. A - something, si - lifted/opened, ri - to see/discover/uncover. How the other languages got the same word to mean secret, I don't know, but can they break down the etymology in their own langauge and is there no other word in their language for secret?

agadez007:
Why are yoruba claiming igbo word like "ogiri"

They were saying ogiri ijebu,, what happened to the yoruba "iru"?

IkpuMmadu:
Yoruba borrowed many words from igbo ..even the term yoruba is a recent term....the tribe known as Yoruba wasn't known for anything until Hausa came and caked them Yoruba and they took up the name .


It was anonga ...if Hausa can give them names and they took it why won't they take igbo words like ogini, ogiri, okwute for stone and many more

lawani:



The word Yoruba was first used by people from Songhai empire whom the Yoruba call Imale meaning Mali. Their traders were allowed to build mosques in Yoruba cities in the past. The word was first found in the works of Ahmed Baba, a Professor from the university at Timbuctu in the 15th century. It means 'people who live towards the South who would not submit to Islam' or 'thugs of the South'. It was popularised by Hausa scholars, poets and etc in written works, it was at first used for the Oyo alone whose capital was called Katunga by Hausas or Oyo ile by Yorubas but it was later used for us all by the mid 20th century.


What do we call ourselves and land? We call ourselves by the name of our subnations like Ijebu, Ijesa, Egba, Ajase, Nago, Idasa, Oyo, Igbomina and etc. Each land is also called that for instance I am an Ijesa man from Ijesa land but all Yoruba land is Ile kaaro o jiire. That is the word meaning the land where we greet ourselves kaaro O jiire. That land is from Southern Niger state to the Atlantic and West to Eastern Ghana. Then there is another designation which is Ife. We are Ife people. This includes Yoruba, Fon, Ewe and Ijaw on the East side of the Niger but Ijaw are separate. When Nigeria is divided. I can say all Ife people West of the Niger will stand together, then I believe the Bariba will join the Ife people, Benin republic and Togo will do thesame. Bariba was a powerful kingdom allied with the Oyo in the 19th century and both did not fall to the Fulbe jihad. So naturally they continue with that. Some Nupe were in the Fulbe empire while others South of the Niger are not. So, probably they go with Hausa Fulani or stay alone but the Bariba, Yoruba of Niger and Kwara will go with the Ife people without a doubt. A Bariba nation will emerge like in the past.

So, before the word Yoruba came into use, we used 'ile kaaro ojiire' and we use Ife. Ife is more all encompassing as ile kaaro o jiire is for where Yoruba is spoken.

bigfrancis21:


For real? Even Ogiri too?

lawani:



The word Yoruba was first used by people from Songhai empire whom the Yoruba call Imale meaning Mali. Their traders were allowed to build mosques in Yoruba cities in the past. The word was first found in the works of Ahmed Baba, a Professor from the university at Timbuctu in the 15th century. It means 'people who live towards the South who would not submit to Islam' or 'thugs of the South'. It was popularised by Hausa scholars, poets and etc in written works, it was at first used for the Oyo alone whose capital was called Katunga by Hausas or Oyo ile by Yorubas but it was later used for us all by the mid 20th century.


What do we call ourselves and land? We call ourselves by the name of our subnations like Ijebu, Ijesa, Egba, Ajase, Nago, Idasa, Oyo, Igbomina and etc. Each land is also called that for instance I am an Ijesa man from Ijesa land but all Yoruba land is Ile kaaro o jiire. That is the word meaning the land where we greet ourselves kaaro O jiire. That land is from Southern Niger state to the Atlantic and West to Eastern Ghana. Then there is another designation which is Ife. We are Ife people. This includes Yoruba, Fon, Ewe and Ijaw on the East side of the Niger but Ijaw are separate. When Nigeria is divided. I can say all Ife people West of the Niger will stand together, then I believe the Bariba will join the Ife people, Benin republic and Togo will do thesame. Bariba was a powerful kingdom allied with the Oyo in the 19th century and both did not fall to the Fulbe jihad. So naturally they continue with that. Some Nupe were in the Fulbe empire while others South of the Niger are not. So, probably they go with Hausa Fulani or stay alone but the Bariba, Yoruba of Niger and Kwara will go with the Ife people without a doubt. A Bariba nation will emerge like in the past.

So, before the word Yoruba came into use, we used 'ile kaaro ojiire' and we use Ife. Ife is more all encompassing as ile kaaro o jiire is for where Yoruba is spoken.

agadez007:
yeah

i was searching for the preparation of Ogiri online,bumped into this site,they even said it has southwestern origin,i initiatially thought it was a joke,searched again

and i was seeeing the same thing

Ogiri ijebu

lawani:


Iru is different from ogiri. Iru is two types iru woro that is still in seed form and iru pete that is mashed. They give a strong taste to soups. Ogiri is a kind of iru but it has a very strong smell. So if someone has a mouth odour, they may say he is ologiri lenu meaning he has ogiri in his mouth because of the somewhat offensive odour of the soup condiment called ogiri. There are many shared words in Yoruba and Igbo. I believe it may be more than shared words between Yoruba and Benin despite that the Yoruba do not share boundary with Igbos and Igbos were not known to the Yorubas before the 20th century.

agadez007:
yeah

i was searching for the preparation of Ogiri online,bumped into this site,they even said it has southwestern origin,i initiatially thought it was a joke,searched again

and i was seeeing the same thing

Ogiri ijebu