Paretomaster:


Kema zaki Iya koya Mata ai.. .....ba laifi.. ..

Mai koyarwa, kayi hakuri saboda fusataka da nayi.
What do i know? Nothing....

Teacher and student

Efewestern:


itsekiri have only one dialect, they speak same.

That i know. What i don't know is the number of dialects/languages itshekiri shares its lexicon with.

Back in high school, my Yoruba teacher claimed that the immortal oduduwa descended from the sky with a big chain.... Some Yoruba scholars/historians also claimed that he fell from the sky.

Now, i see a different story.

Too many loan words up there.
Poster, how many languages or dialects, as the case may be, does Itshekiri share lexicon with?

Lushore1:


I believe hyena is "Aja-Igbo" in Yoruba, I'm not really sure what awurebe means but I will find out and get back to you.

Ok。。。。。。
I think its a coinage (I may be wrong, though).
Let me know when you eventually find out its etymology and meaning.
I heard the word in one Yoruba classic apala and i've wanted to know its meaning since then.

ahnie:
How I grabbed roasted corn from one dirty woman inside a bus...I ate it and satisfied my cravings.after eating everything I held on to the corn comb. gave her 100 naira,scratched my bum.bum and proudly alighted from the bus.everybody were just looking at me...

May God bless her!

Lol

What is it about pregnancy that makes women hanker for things (food) that aren't theirs? Can we blame the 'ant-eye' on the hormones?

Mr Op, sir, what's Hyena in Yoruba and what's the meaning of 'awurebe'?

Don't be confused. Why not get married and see for yourself....


Don't forget to come back and tell us if it truly ages people or it's just an hearsay.

AfricanApple:
lafiya Lau walahi. Toh wacece?

Wacece? Ban gane ba........
Yaya zakace CHISOZU da Hausa . Matar, you still don't have a good grasp of the Hausa language. Watakila Paretomaster is doing a bad job of teaching you.
Sunana 'a puzzle you have to unravel'.........

Ina madaicin ki, anyways.

My dear, the handwriting on the wall is clear enough for you to see, don't kid yourself. That guy never loved you. He just wanted between your legs. To him, you were a 'must have', so, he employed the masculine wiles to sweep you off your feet . Now that he's had enough of you, he tactically discharged you. USE YOUR TONGUE TO COUNT YOUR TEETH

kayzat:


Maybe because I be local boy. I don't think I have any weird name(s) sha .


Abiola
Olanrewaju
Adeola

They are common names........Omo Ola.

Benita27:
Well said op. Well, I think genes plays a major factor in one's brilliance, that's why I can't marry an olodo for a husband 'cause he may pass it on to my kids which I don't want. I have seen cases where no matter the teaching approach used, the child still remains dumb, and he took after his dad.

For the sake of your unborn child(ren), i hope you are not an 'olodo'?

kayzat:







Be careful with your head while you're fainting ma.



But actually I have heard some of the worst names . One of my teacher's was bearing "Kuse" and if I should tell you the full meaning you will go to bed immediately.

You sef, i no just understand. Are you from the 18th century? How come you know all these people with 'ogbonge' names? BTW, you haven't told us your name and its meaning.

Is it the 'Uleshas' and 'Ujeshas' who can die for pounded yam and egusi soup?

GET WELL SOON

OH LAWD !!!

kayzat:





Airin jina la o ri Abule okere. I once have a friend bearing that name as him surname and there is another family in my hometown with Emilandu as their surname.

Emilandu ...... Let me hop on the bandwagon. Shift for me, let me faint

DuchessLily:


Because I have friends and relations from the riverine areas and the water creatures they say their fathers and forefathers worship/worshipped are unimaginable

OK, I GIVE UP

kayzat:





There is nothing weird in those names and they are really lovely names with good meanings.


Tanwa or Omotanwa : Means the child we have been looking for . It's most likely that she's the first female of the family after many combatant boys.

Well, i think the name is ........... an anomaly, so to say. I've never heard or seen someone go by the name 'Emiloju'. I only know its a catchphrase in Yoruba..........
It's all relative, isn't it?

#Dyt#, Once again, no offence meant

room089:
Omolade - Child is king
The igbo rendition of the name is Nwa bu eze

Child is king biti bawo?

Dyt:

My name is Idayat na That's the meaning Lol

Ok I have so many natives Emiloju - life is above all [dunno if I am. Correct] Omotanwa - as the only daughter Abiodun - born during festivities

Save for Abiodun, the rest are weird names (no offence)

Dyt:

Dunno I think it's Idayat

If i'm right, Idayat is an Islamic name. You haven't told us your native name

Orisirisi has multiple meanings. The poster above has already provided you with some words 'orisirisi' translates to. However, for you to get the true meaning of the word , i think you have to state the context in which the word was used.

This erroneous belief that women go out of their ways to make one another’s lives miserable needs to be corrected. Contrary to biased opinions, most women aren’t busy plotting and scheming how to ruin/wreck lives, rather, we support one another. We aren't catty, neither are we obsessively jealous of one another. There is enough success to go round.


BTW, why is this in the culture section?

AfricanApple:

'Happul oyinbo', kwana biyu...... Yaya kike yau?

DuchessLily:


Serious one.. People who live close to river/sea/ocean can be so fetish

You know this because.......?

Stephenfowoyo:
Kolawole- Attract wealth into the family/home

Attract in Yoruba means 'Ko'?

Dyt:
Hidayah - Guidance I think it could also mean gift
Both fits well either way Shrugs

Is Hidayah an Hausa or Yoruba name?

No mudslinging yet? I'm disappointed.

There are friends and there are acquaintances. You can't be friends with someone you have nothing in common with. After all, friendship is formed through common interests. If you are a sheep, you cannot feel comfortable being in a pig's pen and If you feel comfortable in a pig pen, then it is probably because you are a pig.

Nas: Loco-Motive. At seventeen I made seventeen thousand living in public housing Integrity intact, repping hard They asking how he disappear and reappear back on top Saying Nas must have naked pictures of God or something To keep winning is my way like Francis As long as I’m breathing, I’ll take chances A soldier comin' home, twenty years old with no legs Sayin' there’s no sense to cry and complain, just go head So much to write and say, yo I don’t know where to start So I’ll begin with the basics and flow from the heart.....

Nasty Nas is SOLID