baby124:

People customize their Egusi however they like to. Traditionally Egusi is cooked with Efo tete. It is a big hard leaf Yoruba vegetable. Ugwu is an Igbo vegetable. By the way, Yoruba’s also cook with bitter leaf. Bitterleaf is Ewuro. You know nothing about Yoruba cuisine. So stop talking bullshit. We also have a lot of vegetable species we cook with.

Chukazu:


The same way you borrowed " ugu" leave from igbo

He who borrowed whatever doesn't make anyone less or more of a human

Lordave:
I wasn't saying we don't have 'nko' in Igbo, but the particular 'nko'(considering the meaning) he asked about is not popular among Igbo speakers.

What you wrote up there is fact and I know about it.

maclatunji:


Sorry you are hurt, but facts cannot be twisted. The truth is a large portion of people sold into slavery in pre-Independence Nigeria were Igbos, it was not really fellow Igbos doing this but people with superior civilizations finding it easy to overrun the largely scattered Igbo villages that never found the ability to form a state of their own.

scholes0:


Yes you are right, borrowing is a deature of languages world over, but you won’t see any Yoruba claiming Ugu is a Yoruba word.
Some Igbos here however want to lay exclusive claim to words they actually borrowed from Yoruba.

They arent even saying it is shared, they are claiming to own them

This shouldn’t be about ego, but facts.

somegirl1:


Hurt? Is that your go-to comeback when you're unable to defend your claim?
You said Igbos were dominated by Binis.Prove it using the universal litmus tests of language, culture, place names etc. instead of making up stuff.
The kidnap and selling of Igbos by other groups and within Igbo groups does not point to them having been dominated by any group.

Probz:


and some Yorubas on here want to lay exclusive claim to words that are shared between Igbo and Yoruba.

Ogede’s one of them. Comman fight Obinna.

scholes0:


lol your name is nowhere close to Obinna.

I wish I understood more Igbo though, so that i could bust many of your claims.

maclatunji:


Sorry you are hurt, but facts cannot be twisted. The truth is a large portion of people sold into slavery in pre-Independence Nigeria were Igbos, it was not really fellow Igbos doing this but people with superior civilizations finding it easy to overrun the largely scattered Igbo villages that never found the ability to form a state of their own.

konoplyanka:


Please stop with your ignorance. Yoruba just know ibo I n less than 150 years ago. We had nothing in common and didn't have any contact before the Advent of the colonialists. Ibos it is easy to borrow words from hausas which we have had contact with for centuries than ibos. Also, Edo had influence on ibos and could have made borrowing yoruba words easy.

You don't borrow words from people in foreign land unless they come to learn from your land.

konoplyanka:


You know the influence of benins on anioma and onitsha right?

Probz:
baby124

Una get akpurakpu egusi? Mgbam?

TerrorSquad147:
why are you so bitter??

Probz:


There’s no other word for banana in Igbo than ogede. That one’s also shared.

I saw you quote me just before. Did you think I’d reaffirm what you want to believe to boost your Yoruba ego?

somegirl1:

Some of them claim to originate from Bini, which would mean that Igbos dominated over them, rather than the other way round ; as demonstrated by the Igbo influence in their language, culture, place names and phenotype (arguably)

baby124:

People customize their Egusi however they like to. Traditionally Egusi is cooked with Efo tete. It is a big hard leaf Yoruba vegetable. Ugwu is an Igbo vegetable. By the way, Yoruba’s also cook with bitter leaf. Bitterleaf is Ewuro. You know nothing about Yoruba cuisine. So stop talking bullshit. We also have a lot of vegetable species we cook with.

Probz:


There’s no other word for banana in Igbo than ogede. That one’s also shared.

I saw you quote me just before. Did you think I’d reaffirm what you want to believe to boost your Yoruba ego?

somegirl1:


Hurt? Is that your go-to comeback when you're unable to defend your claim?
You said Igbos were dominated by Binis.Prove it using the universal litmus tests of language, culture, place names etc. instead of making up stuff.
The kidnap and selling of Igbos by other groups and within Igbo groups does not point to them having been dominated by any group.

BabaIbo:

oniro oshi, I know Yoruba people very well.. everything you wrote there is a lie, in fact pure lie... tell me one soup yorubas cook with ugu or bitterleaf... yoruba people make their vegetable soup or soup with green(which is also borrowed from igbo) or tete or arowonjeja..

BabaIbo:

oniro oshi, I know Yoruba people very well.. everything you wrote there is a lie, in fact pure lie... tell me one soup yorubas cook with ugu or bitterleaf... yoruba people make their vegetable soup or soup with green(which is also borrowed from igbo) or tete or arowonjeja..

bibe:


Another Igbo word for banana is unere.

Lordave:
As usual, you're missing the who point of the discourse and trying too hard to make a ridicule of your initial brainfart just to massage your bigoted ego.

She asked how is it possible there are no much influence of the superior civilizations that captured and sold Igbos on the Igbos today? But the influence of Igbos are scattered almost all over Souther Nigeria?

BabaIbo:

oniro oshi, I know Yoruba people very well.. everything you wrote there is a lie, in fact pure lie... tell me one soup yorubas cook with ugu or bitterleaf... yoruba people make their vegetable soup or soup with green(which is also borrowed from igbo) or tete or arowonjeja..

bibe:


Another Igbo word for banana is unere.

scholes0:


Sharap there Bitterleaf is Ewuro in Yoruba and it is used to cook very well. You igbos just sitdown in one corner of Festac in Lagos and start making assumptions about all of Yorubaland. Lmao!
Ugu on the other hand is pumpkin leaves. and funnily enough, pumpkins aren’t even native to africa.

Yorubas have no word for punpkin leaves.

konoplyanka:


Logically, who do you think could have borrowed each other's language between Yoruba and ibo? Knowing that 99% of yoruba don't visit iboland and don't even understand your language while 30% of your people have visited Yorubaland and could speak a little of the language.

konoplyanka:


Yes I'm from eastern yoruba and we don't know esusu. The only thing we know is ajo.

However, I don't believe yoruba could borrow words from ibos owing to the fact that Yoruba migration pattern don't go east. We only go west and north.

The ibos on the other hand could have borrowed a lot from yoruba as they migrate to our land.