₦airaland Forum

LegendHero:
Metaphysical what do you think is the reason?

She is the first Nigerian ever to win a Grammy award. She has four Grammy awards to her name from 8 nomination.Her first Grammy was in 1986

lexyking:
Now that they have openly declared their support for Obaseki, I hope they are ready to damn the consequences should things go south with their candidate.
Because there's no coming back from this, that's why in politics,its always good to keep your options open. But then again we all have different strategies, I just hope if this decision of theirs backfires no one will come here and tell us things like, "we are being marginalised in Edo"

macof:
This guy is daft abeg

macof:
There is no semantic Al prefix in Yorùbá language.

Alubọsa makes no sense in Yorùbá language if you take out the first two letters... There's no meaning to "Ubọsa"

It is in the Arabic language that the "Al" comes from meaning "The"
And just as "Ubọsa"... "Al" has no meaning in Yorùbá. Yorùbá thought can't make sense of the "Al" in Alubọsa because its not an original Yoruba word and borrowing it from Arabic the Yoruba could not identify the actual word for "onion".. If not we would have called onion Bọsala or Basala from Arabic "basal"

"Al" makes no sense in any word used in Yorùbá language, borrowed or original. [refer to the quoted post above for how words like Alade, Alaini, Alakoso are formed]


Someone must spell the simplest things to you as if you are a retarded child.
Later you will claim you are Yoruba and I'm igbo
Clowns

At this point anybody who wants to take you retards seriously is not worth the effort.

EastGold:
Do you vote for a first lady in your state?

Don't bring your naivety online abeg

Obalufon:
Ala means purity and enlightment

Obalufon:
Good point .. alabode ..alangba alakan..alamu. alayanpere ..Alade NOT OWNER OF CROWN .. Obatala devotee name .. ALA prefix in Yoruba name is attached to Obatala ,Aso Ala ni mowo ara aiye ma da epo si aso ala mi. ...OBA,. .is Obaluaiye Sho, is Osa Oko.

Balenciagaokey:
According to the leader of Indeginous people of biafra (IPOB), he made claims that the presidential jet have departed Nigeria to switzerland for mass looting of foreign reserves.

He wrote on twitter;

I am therefore requesting the Swiss Government and her mission to Nigeria to investigate this unannounced flight by the Niggerian Presidential jet to Basel Switzerland.

The Nigerian Airforce 1 left Abuja yesterday 17th July 2020 at 8:58 am and arrived Basel Switzerland at about 15:30 local time.

Our initial intelligence indicate this secret is not unconnected with the mass looting of foreign reserves by the gang in Aso Rock in anticipation of the inevitable collapse of the Zoo this year. Switzerland cannot allow itself to become tainted once again with stolen sovereign wealth from Africa.

If Switzerland is serious about fighting corruption, it must impound the Presidential jet, arrest its occupants and mount a thorough search of the aircraft. Looting of national treasury is a crime under international law and Switzerland should not be seen to be aiding these arch looters from Nigeria.

Here are the details of the secret flight �

Ogonimilitant:
Nnamdi Kanus Intel is the best in Africa.
BSS is really formidable.

God Bless lovers of freedom

sesan85:
The worst thing is that millions of Igbos will believe every spurious, codeine-influenced horseshit this monumental scoundrel Kanu utters. When Igbos try to delude you that they're a very intelligent people, just show them these IPOB deplorables. Kanu's litany of pea-brained, credulous, low IQ, utterly dim-witted IPOB scallywags is a verifiable proof that Igbos aren't as intelligent as they delusionally believe themselves to be.

helinues:
Another mumu question..

Who that hell is he to questioned presidency?

Jobless mofo

Online president of Biaflop..

EastGold:
All these IPOB analysts, leave our state for us. We will settle ourselves.

Spelt Eyitayo as Enitayo

Ajayi as Ayayi.


Rubbish

Nels55:
This is the combination APC in ondo will fear the most, infact this settles any election in Ondo unless the presidency intervenes with full force in the election....


APC in Ondo is battered, I love the incumbent governor, a professional who pushes himself in governance but the problem of APC is that they seem not to like professionals in politics..

Before 2015, APC went after core professionals who can portray the change mantra but once these guys came in, the wolves started a war to clear them out of the scene.. Ambode went, Obaseki chased now Akeredolu... This has given breath to PDP in the state if they get it right next week..


For starters, am not a fan of Agboola Ayayi infact men of his kind are very ambitious and dangerous but the fact still stands that he played the right card, he knew as an insider that APC is very shaky with many infighting against his boss administration, he also knew that his region (South part of the state) is in favour of the PDP ticket, his greatest rival to the Ticket Enitayo jegede (another focused professional) comes from the central part of the state and was the former flag bearer of the party, ofcourse we all know that the former gov Mimko also comes from the central and wanted to the Ticket to continue but failed..


Now, Agboola will have to bring Enitayo jegede to the table, offering Deputy governor and a shot to the governorship after their tenure.. As I said before this combination settles the Ondo politics if God approves...


Ondo South and Ondo Central electorates are ready for a very bitchy and disorganised APC...

2prexios:
West coast harmony...contd.

Obiri Yeboa is akin to obiri oloja. Yeboa is akin to Oloja, it's a distance memorabilia for Yoba, Yoruba. Of course the Yoruba had their kinsfolk who were native to Togo, the Ana, and possibly there are others.

The tie between Yoruba and the tribes of Ghana is began on the coast, and so the Yoruba kindred in that place were reckoned as nsumfto, that is, people who came ashore from the sea.

The fact remains that the Yoruba had no record of such expenditions, but tradition of the Yoruba had the reminder. Even Agonyin had Yoruba touch, okun le agonyin o we.

Oghán

Agon, iya agon. Compare Iseyin, "ilu ogo kiki egan": Agonyin means praise by some and ridiculed by others. The Egun of Tado, Togo lay in-between. In egun, iron is oghàn, it's homonym for Oghán. The word oghán means leader.

The Yoruba memorabilia for ghana is iganna. In egun, ghanno means the leadership, mother superior. Ghanno can also means operator of machine, The idea is directly from iron derivative.

Semantics

In Yoruba language, Obinrin means female, but literally "metalized" or having metal. On the other hand, okunrin means "male" but literally, "added to metal". It's like iron and steel in that sense.

To have come to this pedestal shows that the Yoruba ancestors had a great understanding of the smelting of iron and other heavy metals at inception, and the philosophy is deposited here.

As we might have known, salted gold is not a pure gold, and steel is carbonized metal. Therefore, Obinrin in the ideology of the founding fathers received the mandate for the emigration.

In literal sense, obinrin means "the original immigrant" and then okunrin implies "back up immigrant". That can be felt in the saying "tin lo ree bawon mule ibudo" or "tin lo ree b'oosa mule"

The interpretations from this is a proof that the visionary leader of the emigrants was a woman, and the missionary back up were men.

If not, the men should have had the land to themselves and not be a missionary to anyone. So that the record would have been tiin lo ree mule ibudo" and "tiinlo ree gbale funra re.

There's this shrine of shighana on board street, Marina, Lagos (it's at a lane somewhere behind the zenith Bank). These wordset are cognates and true reminders of the ewe, (ehufe: ehun-vive) in Yoruba liturgy.

Trans racial and cultural harmony

We have iron as irin in Yoruba. We have been able to get it settled that the word has matching cognates with all it's earliest manifestation in Celtics and Anglo-Saxon variation of the word till date.

Now these folks have neighbors. How about their variant for the same word because just as John Hunter Duvar had opined, iron was a currency of the iron age.

In other words, such cultures whose history trace back to the inception of the iron age could have mindshare that yet survive in their languages till date. Sharing such cognates reveal common hub for the trade.

From old English, isern, isaern, German, isana, Dutch ijza, Celtics isarnom. Someone else should do the job, it's just as Olu has predicted: the cognates are all there, like in the Olu's story about the turkey as tokey or something.

Metaphysical also have a great validation as event now shows, he told us Gersham is ijesha, this place in the Levant lies on the kings highway, the trade route to the Hittites kingdom from India.

This is the corridor of Egyptian civilization and probably the Sinai region was the birthplace of the iron smelting industry, the period coincide with the time history placed the Israelites rise to empire.

Now let's pan out the cognates on the image below, it's clear Israel is a good candidate where iron get into the dialects of the Germanic tongues, which came up much later in world history.

From the list, we can truly understand the fact that Yoruba originated at the peak of the iron age as well. The process of seeing the cognates in the attached image below is such that

1. We can perceive Yoruba like tongues elsewhere in Europe.

2. Mutual agreement of ideas of old on an object of historical reckoning.

3. Further understand that the Yoruba language can help understand Indo-European languages.

4. Likewise, Yoruba could be the missing link to a yet to be determined language of the Levant.

5. The Yoruba had contacts with more languages than most of the languages similar to it.

6. Yoruba hold back historical experience that the list below foreshadow in the background.

7. The list of cognates for iron in Germanic tongues prod Yoruba original home.

Sammy07:
They are begging Yoruba Muslims party

metaphysical

4. United Kingdom

Since the British Empire are the ones that colonize Nigeria, it is worthy of note that Yoruba indigene are of high population in this country.

We gathered that it is of additional advantage for anybody that can speak Yoruba to get recruited to the British Police.

engrchykae:
which one is true Igbo?
You are an enemy

macof:
Smh. So the new argument now is that Alubarika, Alubọsa are not borrowed words anything for this semitic claim right?

I didn't know there was such a thing as Ubọsa in Yoruba language.. And why Alubọsa not Onibọsa

You guys are clowns

Refer to my previous posts










Eg. Alubarika from "Al baraka" (the blessing) in Arabic., Alubọsa from "Al basal" (the onion)

Very different from Alade, Alaini which are original to Yoruba Alade = owner of a crown. Ade =crown. Ala ade with "ala" serving as a possessive from the palatalization of "Oni" (owner/possessor) to blend with the first sound of the word "Ade".

Another example is Olowo. Owo =money
Olo serving as possessive from "Oni"

Ẹni to ni Owo = O ni Owo = O l'owo = Olowo


PS. Do tell how this is wrong

This has been your style....to dodge!

You are crafty but i already told you, i will continously reveal your shallowness in what you claim to be ypur specialty.


Answer the question I asked you.
Are the Yoruba words with "Al" prefix borrowings from Arab/Hausa -
"alaini" (the deprived)
"alabosi" (discreet)
"alamodi" (sick)
"alabode" (medium)....


How about names with "Al" in prefix, are they borrowed from Arab/Hausa?


If you were smart, macof, you would have recognized that "Al" prefix is an attribute of something.

When applied in name it confers a quality.

When applied in conditions it confers an absence of some quality.

In both cases it exists as an attribute.

What kind of quack linguist are you?

Please answer my question, is any Yoruba word prefixed with Al a borrowing from Arab/Hausa?

If not clarify why you would dismiss some and not others. What is your criteria for selection?

Your interpretation of Alade is false by the way. Just so you know.


Focus on the use of Al in Yoruba to communicate EFFICIENCY, and its use to equally COMMUNICATE DEFICIENCY.

2prexios:
You asked him what is the spirit of owo, but how would a non-Yoruba knows that?

Owo is for money

Owo is for business.

Money is the spirit of business.

Our man never goes near whatever he can't figure out with Google search.

macof:
but how can somebody be this dull.

So you mean you don't know the difference between Alade and Alubọsa? And you speak some Yoruba? You sure about that?


We know Alade is Oni Ade/Ala Ade = owner of a crown
So when you see Alubọsa does it mean owner of Ubọsa

Or it is the other way around? Does Alade mean "the crown" "Al Ade"

Chai. Mehn the stupidity is something else

PS. You can see the n - l palatalization still in standard Yoruba.. Further demonstrating to you the authenticity of my drawn up consonant sound change pattern

Abeg leave me alone. You guys will burst my stomach with laugh

Rossikki:
Sorry, I disagree. In fact if you visit those places you mentioned, they look BETTER than they did in the colonial days. A lot of renovation of the island and CBD has taken place.

Tinubu Sq for instance looks better than it did decades ago:

https://static.elevatenews.com/uploads/2017/12/Good-Time-To-Be-In-Lagos-Nigeria.jpg