Thank you for your reply! Hehehe, yeah, it's a good class! ;-)

Hmmm... I am aware of the tonal significance in Yoruba language. It is a real pitty that the tone-marks got lost in the corpus of odus I work with. It is a corpus of works that my good friend collected over the last thirty years, in Europe though. He did so in museums, university libraries and private collections. I am afraid the sources were that old that nobody was really aware of the significance of tone-marks, and/or didn't have a typewriter that could produce them. (I actually am guessing that, but I wouldn't be surprised if that in fact was the case. European languages don't have tonal significance in that way.) Also he got texts from very old sound-recordings.

We are going to publish the corpus in English and I will make drawings with every text, as Ifa asked us to do it this way. For me it will be an Ifa study, Ifa asked me to do so and I gladly accepted his invitation ;-). By the way, I am working on the Ika odus at the moment. If it really is that hard to get to something, it seems I have to get my info and inspiration through the context then and accept the handicap. Also I think the meaning of words can (often) be derived from their context, considering the makeup of the lot of those texts. Anyway... Any help is very much appreciated!

Thanks again for your reply!

Hello everybody,

I am new to the forum and new to Yoruba language. Anybody here who is willing to help me translate the following Yoruba words / names? If they can be translated into English. I was told a lot of words can't be translated literally. But there might be a way to describe or explain them. Even though that would be in a perhaps "clumsy" way. Many thanks in advance...

• Inukogun
• Awofusi
• Atikaresete
• Omipensen-akodun-koro
• Keke
• Oritoteere
• Adiloye
• Adetutu
• Eka
• Jokoje
• Ikase
• Osikaleka
• Olabosipo
• Onimeri-Apala