₦airaland Forum

lawani:
You are talking rubbish. Ogiri was not learnt from Igbos who appeared in Yorubaland very recently. Ogiri is known all over Yoruba land as a soup condiment with a somewhat offensive yet rich odour not only in Ijebu. I have known ogiri when I was in Ijesa. Yoruba did not learn it from Igbos. Then garri is a Yoruba word learnt by Igbos. Igbos did not eat garri in the past I believe. They ate foofoo and pounded yam. While Yoruba either soak garri in water to drink or use it to make eba with boiling water. The Igbos call eba, garri while the Yoruba do not. To Yorubas eba is made from garri while garri on its own is like corn flakes. It is a more advanced use of cassava than the use for foofoo by Igbos. I hope you wont say the words for mouth, nose, ear, time and etc were learnt by Yorubas from Igbos.

YonkijiSappo:
Iru is not the Yoruba equivalent of Ogiri.
Iru is made from fermented Locust bean, while Ogiri is made from other material like Fermented Melon, Soybean or Sesame seeds, so it isn't the same but similar to Iru.
Both are used in Yoruba land.

lawani:
Your way of reasoning is a bit strange. Igbos were not known to any one of Yoruba or Hausa before colonisation because leaving their villages probably was a taboo back then. It was the British colonisation that modernised Igbos. They went to other places first as colonial workers then as traders. By contrast, the Yoruba knew Hausas, Kanuris, Malians, Portuguese, Ashanti, Europeans, Arabs and those people knew the Yoruba too. They lived in Yoruba cities. The Igbos were cut off from the Yoruba by the Edoid people. The Yoruba that knew Igbos were the Yoruba of Benin because Benin was a Yoruba speaking state that had Igbo people in it but since Igbos dont leave their villages, Yorubas farther to the West never encountered them but Anioma Igbos were using Yoruba as lingua franca in the past to communicate with headquarters in Benin. As for Ogiri, it is a well entrenched Yoruba word used for something produced in Yoruba land, so if you insist that Yorubas learnt the word from Igbos who showed up here in the 20th century, then that speaks volumes about your level of reasoning. Why not Igbos copied it from Yoruba?

Redbone.Smith:
U people are funny, so a negligible number of igbo in lagos had already made ogiri so popular in yorubaland that the word entered a yoruba dictionary by 1913. The lagos you are talking about sef ogiri is not very popular there, but it is in the interior. So igbo left lagos and went and gave them ogiri in the interior before 1913. Meanwhile I can't find ogiri or ogili in a onitcha dictionary that I have in my archives. You people need to drop this supremacy attitude and understand that igbo and yoruba share words in common because of distant relation. Even oka which means maize is also in yoruba language and they did not borrow from igbo. They share the word together. Bishop Crowther recorded that oka is maize in yoruba in 1843.

I ave given the name of the dictionary, and it is easy to locate it on google.

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

More

Redbone.Smith:
I will come and be lying because of what? Is anyone crediting my akant to claim ogiri for yoruba? That you stay in lagos and have not seen ogiri doesnt mean. Me I have stayed in nsukka and I have never seen ofe achara. Will i now come and say ofe achara is not igbo? Ihe onye amaro ka ya.

I have done a screengrab of the 1913 dictionary. The title is "a dictionary of the yoruba language" by the c.m.s. If you like you can go online and look for it.

lawani:
It is better to carry yourself with self respect than to take up the post of a clown when the situation calls for seriousness and there is no need for clowning.


There were many languages in the Benin empire which was a Yoruba empire with a Yoruba name Ibinu (Anger) but the lingua franca was the Yoruba dialect still spoken by Ilaje and Itsekiri today. The Ilaje and Itsekiri are the most accurate representative of ancient Benin while Benin city was the capital. That Yoruba dialect was the only language in which Benin officials were addressed. You dont speak any other language in a Benin court which includes courts as faraway as Rivers state, Anambra and Delta that at one time or the other came under Benin influence. It was the language learnt by Europeans in the Benin empire. Benin's Edoid language was limited to the natives around that area. You dont address the Oba in that language in the past. Just like you dont address the Oba in Igbo, the Obi Onitsha, Obi Ussele Ukwu and etc too. The Yoruba language is Egyptian and relatively new to this parts. The language of the Yoruba was Akoko. Now spoken at the edges of Yoruba land in Kwara, Kogi, Ondo and Northern Edo.


Yoruba word for box is apoti, for okro is ila. Ugu leaves as vegetable was probably introduced to Yorubas by Igbos as it does not have a Yoruba name as far as I know. For Egusi, I do not know, it might also be an Igbo word.

Let me add that the Nupe claim to have established Onitsha and thrived there before it passed from hand to hand to come under Benin influence. They have a meaning for Onitsha unlike most others.

Then language zones are well demarcated but in the case of an empire, they post armies and officers and their official language is imposed. A person of considerable intellect should not be saying Benin was not Yoruba. Was it Edoid then? There were more Yoruba speaking towns than any other language in the Benin empire and Yoruba was the language of business. So Benin armies and officers took the language to all their stations as lingua franca but when the empire collapsed, the outposts returned to using their local language or adopted a more convenient one. Anyone should be able to reason that out.

AlphaTaikun:
@lawani

@Your bolded post right ABOVE.
FIRST off, Fluted Pumpkin is widely grown in nature and has Indigenous names in different languages for centuries. The Fluted Pumpkin leaves are called "Nkong Ubong" in Ibibio language and "Ugu" by the Ibos BUT it's NOT a leaf of Ibo origin contrary to misleading claims.

The Yoruba name for Fluted Pumpkin leaves has always been "Ewe Woroko or Eweroko" with further explanations FAR right BELOW. (Just like Yorubas have Obe Apon or Apon soup which is called Ogbono in other places). So, the Yorubas have been eating fluted pumpkin leaves for centuries. It has to be emphasized here and now that because of regional differences, some Yoruba subgroups eat more of other types of soups and cuisines than others. The Ijesas, Ekitis, Ondos, etc, eat a lot of Iyan (pounded yam) with highly tasty Obe Egunsi (Egusi) with unique indigenous spices added for flavor. The Ibadans and other Oyo groups eat more of the 3 types of Elubo namely: Elubo isu (yam flour) plus Elubo Lafun (cassava flour) plus Elubo Ogede (plantain flour) and Obe Ewedu and Gbegiri soups. Contrary to the ridiculously FALSE claims by some ignorant posters online (including some young Yorubas who aren't properly exposed to their culture), the Yorubas have more than 25 different types of flavorful soups beyond the Ewedu and Gbegiri soups which are just quick soups that these people ONLY know. The popular "Efo riro genre is NOT just one type of soup, BUT it has up to 6 types of soup variants alone based on the type of leaves used. Combined together, all the soups from the different parts of Yorubaland from Nigeria, to Benin Republic, to Togo, are over 25 types of soups with some being special soups because the ingredients are seasonal based on my cuisine research over the years. With greenhouses, these ingredients and spices can be made all-year round. The Yorubas are indeed great cooks and it's necessary to have a copyrighted unified Yoruba cookbook(s) to show the richness of the global Yoruba cuisines that have existed for centuries before now.


Ewe woroko (also spelled eweroko or efo worowo in Yoruba) refers to fluted pumpkin leaves in English.

This vegetable is widely known as "ugu" in the Igbo language and has the botanical name Telfairia occidentalis. It is a popular and nutritious leafy green used extensively in West African cuisine, particularly in Nigerian soups and stews.

Telfairia occidentalis - Wikipedia
Telfairia occidentalis. ... Telfairia occidentalis is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds.


Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) Known as NKONG UBONG in Ibibio, UGU in Ibo, EWEROKO in Yoruba and and KABEWA MAI KABEWA in Hausa is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. 5 Aug 2020
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/Nurseudeme/posts/there-has-been-an-increasing-awareness-on-the-need-to-include-more-vegetables-in/

lawani:
Thanks I posted the comment before knowing the Yoruba word for Ugwu leaf

AlphaTaikun:
@lawani

@Your bolded post right ABOVE.
FIRST off, Fluted Pumpkin is widely grown in nature and has Indigenous names in different languages for centuries. The Fluted Pumpkin leaves are called "Nkong Ubong" in Ibibio language and "Ugu" by the Ibos BUT it's NOT a leaf of Ibo origin contrary to misleading claims.

The Yoruba name for Fluted Pumpkin leaves has always been "Ewe Woroko or Eweroko" with further explanations FAR right BELOW. (Just like Yorubas have Obe Apon or Apon soup which is called Ogbono in other places). So, the Yorubas have been eating fluted pumpkin leaves for centuries. It has to be emphasized here and now that because of regional differences, some Yoruba subgroups eat more of other types of soups and cuisines than others. The Ijesas, Ekitis, Ondos, etc, eat a lot of Iyan (pounded yam) with highly tasty Obe Egunsi (Egusi) with unique indigenous spices added for flavor. The Ibadans and other Oyo groups eat more of the 3 types of Elubo namely: Elubo isu (yam flour) plus Elubo Lafun (cassava flour) plus Elubo Ogede (plantain flour) and Obe Ewedu and Gbegiri soups. Contrary to the ridiculously FALSE claims by some ignorant posters online (including some young Yorubas who aren't properly exposed to their culture), the Yorubas have more than 25 different types of flavorful soups beyond the Ewedu and Gbegiri soups which are just quick soups that these people ONLY know. The popular "Efo riro genre is NOT just one type of soup, BUT it has up to 6 types of soup variants alone based on the type of leaves used. Combined together, all the soups from the different parts of Yorubaland from Nigeria, to Benin Republic, to Togo, are over 25 types of soups with some being special soups because the ingredients are seasonal based on my cuisine research over the years. With greenhouses, these ingredients and spices can be made all-year round. The Yorubas are indeed great cooks and it's necessary to have a copyrighted unified Yoruba cookbook(s) to show the richness of the global Yoruba cuisines that have existed for centuries before now.


Ewe woroko (also spelled eweroko or efo worowo in Yoruba) refers to fluted pumpkin leaves in English.

This vegetable is widely known as "ugu" in the Igbo language and has the botanical name Telfairia occidentalis. It is a popular and nutritious leafy green used extensively in West African cuisine, particularly in Nigerian soups and stews.

Telfairia occidentalis - Wikipedia
Telfairia occidentalis. ... Telfairia occidentalis is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds.


Fluted pumpkin (Telfairia occidentalis) Known as NKONG UBONG in Ibibio, UGU in Ibo, EWEROKO in Yoruba and and KABEWA MAI KABEWA in Hausa is a tropical vine grown in West Africa as a leaf vegetable and for its edible seeds. 5 Aug 2020
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/Nurseudeme/posts/there-has-been-an-increasing-awareness-on-the-need-to-include-more-vegetables-in/

AlphaTaikun:
Indeed, Ogiri is a Yoruba word that has been used for centuries. Some loan words like I stated earlier leaked into the lexicon of other languages such as Ibo as indicated in the "Longman Ibo-English Dictionary" and the indigenous Igalas of Kogi, Anambra, Enugu, and Delta North (Igala language is Yoruboid-speaking with up to 65% of Yoruba-derived words in Igala language (and the rest of Idoma language origin) definitely influenced the adoption of these Yoruba words in Ibo language as loan words. "Ogede" and "Iba' are pure Yoruba words for Plantain and Fever which Igalas also use. The Central Ibo lexicon also loaned the two words "Ogede" and "Iba" among other words via Igala. The pure Yoruba word or name AJAGUN (meaning Warrior) is spelled in Igala language as AJAGWU (warrior in Igala) and is in used as a name in Anambra due to the Igala influences due to the FACT that Igalas are indigenous to Anambra and Enugu States. So these Yoruboid words inflows in Igala language into Ibo lexicon over the last 500 years isn't strange due to the SE real Igala-associated communities in Anambra, Enugu, Delta North and Kogi such as Ebu, Okpanam, Illah, Asaba in Delta North, many Anambra communities such as Onitsha, Nteje, Aguleri, Umueri, etc, in Enugu State... Nsukka, and areas bordering Kogi have Igala bloodlines over the centuries. ERI is regarded as the son of Achado of Igala noble origins from Idah.


Even the name IDAH (the cultural capital of Igalaland is of Yoruba origin as the FULL name is "Ona Ida" meaning "the road or path of movement is blocked" due to the river Niger).

This name Idah or "Ona Ida" emphasizes the experience the early founders of Idah went through while migrating to their current location of Idah centuries back. In 2017, the late Attah of Igalaland Michael Ameh Oboni clearly stated in a Saturday Punch newspaper that Igala people are a fusion of people from the Wukari area who moved along the river Benue to the river Niger area around Idah and they met a significant number of Yorubas and Edos around the Idah area who they fused with. The article is still on the Punch newspaper website. The Igalas have part Yoruba ancestries or bloodlines in addition to Idoma, some Edo, Jukun, etc, from centuries past. Even in the iconic book entitled: "The Ibo-Igala Borderlands" published in the 1960s by an American lecturer who lectured at UNN in Nsukka, he wrote that Igala and Yoruba hunters were jointly hunting together in Nsukka as far back as the 1700s. The American scholar (Shelby) wrote further that the Igalas learned Yoruba incantations and medicinal ways from the Yorubas. The uncanny similarities in language are just way too much further emphasizing that Igalas are Yorubas are direct cousins.


It's NOT strange the former American scholar at UNN got that information BECAUSE the red Igala chieftaincy cap was FIRST introduced into the Nsukka area by the Igalas. The red cap is NOT originally indigenous to the Ibos but is of Middle Belt of Nigeria origin and was later copied by those in other parts of Iboland who didn't even have direct contact with the Igalas.

ariesbull:
If Yoruba can claim Ogiri is a Yoruba word ...

A tribe that Hausa named Yaribas and later it evolved to Yoruba and Yoruba doesn't even have any meaning in Yoruba language

Tomorrow you will claim
Ugu,
Onugbu
Ugba
Abacha
Akpu
Odogwu

Are all Yoruba words....


What's the meaning of Yoruba let's even start with that !

AlphaTaikun:
Incidentally I speak Hausa and NO Hausa person calls Yorubas Yoruba. That name Yoruba is a European rendition by explorers, missionaries, etc, of different spellings in their books. The Hausa spelling for Yoruba folks is Yarbawa. The spelling Yoruba was coined by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a renowned linguist and clergy. It was Crowther who standardized that spelling YORUBA derived from OYO OBA. That spelling was used in all his official publication as of 1843. Yoruba is the name for Oyo folks (Oyo Oba) and that name was extended for all subgroups with ancestral links in the Yoruba Country. There is a documentary online that explains in a sequential timeline how Ajayi Crowther coined the name Yoruba in the 1800s. The English people are made up of 3 Germanic tribes called Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. They were fused together and collectively called English (or Anglo-Saxons). The Oyos, the Ondos, Ijesas, Ibolos, Egbas, Ibadans, Ekitis, Ilajes, Ijebus of Lagos and Ogun States, Usens of Edo (Ovia South West LGA of Edo State), Okuns of Kogi, Ekos and Aworis of Lagos and Ogun States, Akokos, Ejigbos, Owus, etc, are all collectively called Yoruba as of today.

I didn't want to respond to parts of your post because what I posted some months ago on this thread which you are quoting here is self-explanatory. Just to be CLEAR, the Yorubas of Kogi and the Igalas are close neighbors and ancestrally related as told by Attah Michael Ameh Oboni. So, it's NOT strange that you have 65% of Yoruba-derived words in Igala while the remaining 35% of Igala words are largely of Idoma origins. The American lecturer Shelby wrote in his book entitled, "Ibo-Igala Borderlands" that as far back as the early 1700s, Yorubas and their Igala hunter friends were already hunting in Nsukka and the Igalas learned divination and the art of charms from the Yoruba and vice versa.

Second, "Ewe Woroko" is the well-known Yoruba name for fluted pumpkin leaves used for centuries to make vegetable soup by the Yorubas, which the Ibos call ugu. The Hausas, Efiks and Ibibios have their own indigenous names for the fluted punpkin leaves as well which I clearly stated on this same thread.

NO Yoruba person will ever claim those Ibo words you wrote up there with the exception of Oloriogun (Ologun) which is called "Odogwu" which practically mean the same thing... Head or leader of warriors). Just so you know, PURE Yoruba words in Igala language such as "Ogun" meaning War in Yoruba is spelled dialectically as Ogwu in Igala, Ogun Deity in Yoruba language is spelled as Ogwu as well, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala, "Ewa" for beans in Yoruba is spelled as Egwa in Igala, "Omi" for water in Yoruba is spelled as Omi in Igala, "Ogede" for plantain in Yoruba is spelled as Ogede as well in Igala, "Ifa" divination in Yoruba is spelled as Ifa in Igala [which the Ibos of Nri and contiguous areas influenced by the Igalas corrupted to "Afa"]. Iba for fever in Yoruba is spelled as Iba in Igala, "Osu" for month in Yoruba is spelled as Ochu in Igala, Ise in Yoruba for work is spelled as Uche in Igala I've seen Ibo folks online from Imo and Abia States who affirm that "Odinani" is the original Ibo traditional religion NOT "Afa" which Anambra communities such as Nri and co like to claim as the indigenous religion. This goes to show that Ifa (corrupted to Afa) is NOT indigenous to Nri but was brought from outside from Yorubaland via Igala due to the Igala connection with Anambra, Enugu and Delta North in the last 500 years. The red chieftaincy cap was FIRST introduced into the Nsukka area over 500 years ago by the Igalas whose conquest of what is now called Northern Iboland included Nsukka.

Some noticeable Yoruba words and Yoruba-derived words in Igala have found their ways into the Ibo lexicon. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther who is a trained linguist and Anglican clergy man was the FIRST EVER person [using the foundations of his work on the Yoruba language alphabet, Yoruba bible and Yoruba-English Dictionary as of 1843] to write a book in Ibo language entitled "Isuama Ibo: A Primer" in the late 1800s. He wrote the same books for Igala and Nupe languages.

The FACT remains that 65% of Igala words are derived from the Yoruba language due to the fusion of Yoruba bloodlines in Igala ancestry (Igalas have part Yoruba ancestries) as confirmed by the Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni in a 2017 Sunday Punch newspaper interview. This is why Igala language is classified officially by linguists as a Yoruboid language. There's NO doubt that the influence of the Igalas who are indigenous to parts of Anambra, Enugu, Delta North, and Kogi (including several states in the Middle Belt) led to the inflow of these Yoruba words into modern Ibo lexicon as LOAN words via the Anambra/Igala border lands. Yoruba words such as "Ewure" for goat which is Ewu, "Enu" for mouth which is Onu, "Okuta" for rock or stone which is spelled Okwute in Ibo, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala and Ibo.

The amount of LOAN WORDS derived from Yoruba language in Ibo language lexicon isn't more than 2%, BUT in Igala language 65% of Yoruba language are in Igala with 35% of Idoma words in Igala language as well.

Last but NOT least, I have seen works of linguist of Ibo origin online which CLEARLY affirm that Yoruba words such as Akara, Egusi (corrupted to Egwusi), Agidi, Moyin-Moyin (which has been bastardized to "Mai Mai" by Ibos), Elubo (corrupted to Alibo by Ibos) etymologically are derived from Yoruba language as LOAN words. The Longman Ibo-English dictionary published many decades ago by an Ibo scholar and a European scholar clearly states that "Egwusi" is a LOAN words by the Ibos from the Yorubas (YOR) who spell it as Egusi. Elili is the actual Ibo word for Egusi. I also read that different parts of Ibo have different names for the same thing. The original spelling of "Moyin-Moyin" alternatively shortened to "Moin-Moin" with the letter "Y" removed in recent history is simultaneously called "Olele" which are both Yoruba words emphasizing the "stickiness" of the beans pudding. The Yoruba name for Walnut is both called Asala and Ausa depending on regional variations. Ugbo and Igbo mean the same thing in Yoruba meaning forest or bush, Oma and Omo mean child or indigene in Yoruba language.

AlphaTaikun:
FIRST off, let's be CLEAR, contrary to your post, the Yorubas are NOT a "tribe" but an ETHNIC group with a population of over 70 million strong located in major population centers worldwide. They are indigenous to Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo, and Yoruba descendants have been in Ghana for over 400 years engaging in long-distance trading via the Oyo Empire to the Accra region and the Ashanti Empire.

Incidentally, I understand and speak Hausa and NO modern Hausa person calls Yorubas by that name "Yoruba" contrary to the misleading information you posted... NON! That name "Yoruba" is a misleading European rendition by explorers, missionaries, etc, of different spellings such as "Yarriba or Yeriba" in their books. The standard Hausa spelling for Yoruba folks is "Yarbawa." Hausa names usually end with "WA" such as "Kanawa" for people from Kano. The spelling "Yoruba" was historically coined by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a renowned multilinguist and Anglican clergyman. It was Ajayi Crowther who standardized that spelling YORUBA which is derived from OYO OBA to refer to the Oyo Empire and Oyo people who are a subgroup of the Yorubas. That spelling was used in all his official publications as of 1843. Yoruba is the name for Oyo folks (Oyo Oba or Oyo is King) referencing the foremost ascendancy of the Oyo Empire among the larger Yoruba people. That name Yoruba was then extended to refer to ALL the subgroups with ancestral links in the Yoruba Country. There is a video documentary online that explains in a sequential historical timeline how Ajayi Crowther coined the name Yoruba in the early 1800s. The English people are made up of 3 Germanic tribes called Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. They were fused together and collectively called English (or Anglo-Saxons) with English being derived from one of the Germanic tribes called the ANGLES. The Oyos, the Ondos, Ijesas, Ibolos, Egbas, Ibadans, Ekitis, Ilajes, Ijebus of Lagos and Ogun States, Usen and other Yorubas of Ife (Ufe origins) of (Ovia South West LGA of Edo State), Okuns of Kogi, Ekos and Aworis of Lagos and Ogun States, Akokos, Ejigbos, Owus, etc, are all collectively called Yoruba as of today. YORUBA simply refered ORIGINALLY to the OYO people, BUT it now refers to many of the other subgroups in the Yoruba country such as the Ekitis, Aworis, Ilajes, Ijebus, Akokos, etc, so it is totally disingenuous for you to FALSELY claim on an open with your full chest that Yoruba has no meaning. You can do BETTER.

I didn't want to respond to parts of your post because what I posted some months ago on this thread which you are quoting here is self-explanatory. Just to be CLEAR, the Yorubas of Kogi and the Igalas are close neighbors and are ancestrally related as told by Attah Michael Ameh Oboni with Igala being a fusion of people of different ethnic groups. So, it's NOT strange that you have 65% of Yoruba-derived words in Igala while the remaining 35% of Igala words are largely of Idoma origins. The former American lecturer of the University of Nigeria Nsukka named Shelby wrote in his book entitled, "Ibo-Igala Borderlands" that as far back as the early 1700s, Yorubas and their Igala hunter friends were already hunting in the forests of Nsukka and the Igalas learned divination and the art of charms from the Yoruba and vice versa.

Fourth, "Ewe Woroko" or "Eweroko" is the well-known Yoruba name for fluted pumpkin leaves used for centuries to make vegetable soup by the Yorubas, which the Ibos call "ugu." The Hausas, Efiks and Ibibios have their own indigenous names for the fluted punpkin leaves as well which I CLEARLY stated on this same thread.

NO Yoruba person will ever claim those Ibo words you wrote up there with the exception of "Oloriogun" (or Ologun) which is called "Odogwu" which practically mean the same thing... (Head or leader of Warriors). Just so you know, PURE Yoruba words in Igala language such as "Ogun" meaning War in Yoruba is spelled dialectically as Ogwu in Igala, Ogun is Medicine in Yoruba is spelled as Ogwu in Igala, Ogun Deity in Yoruba language is spelled as Ogwu as well based on dialectic and diacritical marks, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala, "Ewa" for beans in Yoruba is spelled as Egwa in Igala, "Omi" for water in Yoruba is spelled as Omi in Igala, "Ogede" for plantain in Yoruba is spelled as Ogede as well in Igala, "Omo and Oma" in Yoruba is spelled as Oma in Igala, "Ifa" divination in Yoruba is spelled as Ifa in Igala [which the Ibos of Nri and contiguous areas influenced by the Igalas corrupted to "Afa"]. Iba for fever in Yoruba is spelled as Iba in Igala, "Osu" for month in Yoruba is spelled as Ochu in Igala, Ise in Yoruba for work is spelled as Uche in Igala I've seen Ibo folks online from Imo and Abia States who strongly affirm that "Odinani" is the original Ibo traditional religion NOT "Afa" which Anambra communities such as Nri and co [which have Igala influences via ERI the Igala Prince and son of Achado] like to claim as the indigenous religion. This goes to show that Ifa (corrupted to Afa) is NOT indigenous to Nri but was brought from from Yorubaland via Igala due to the Igala connection with Anambra, Enugu and Delta North in the last 500 years. The red chieftaincy cap too is NOT indigenous to the Ibos, BUT it was FIRST introduced into the Nsukka area within the last 500 years by the Igalas whose conquest and settlement of what is now called Northern Iboland in Enugu and Anambra States included Nsukka.

Some noticeable Yoruba words and Yoruba-derived words in Igala have found their ways into the Ibo lexicon. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther who is a trained linguist and Anglican clergy man was the FIRST EVER person [using the foundations of his work in creating the Yoruba language alphabet, Yoruba bible and Yoruba-English Dictionary as of 1843] to write a book in Ibo language entitled, "Isuama Ibo: A Primer" in the late 1800s. This highly respected Yoruba man [named Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther is a direct descendant of Alaafin Abiodun, the Emperor of the Oyo Empire who reigned in the late 1700s], wrote the same language books for Igala and Nupe languages. Samuel Ajayi Crowther lived in Onitsha as a missionary and could speak the Onitsha Ibo dialect. Brilliant linguists and missionaries such as Ajayi Crowther had to be proficient in multiple languages for their missionary activities.

The FACT remains that 65% of Igala words are derived from the Yoruba language due to the fusion of Yoruba bloodlines in Igala ancestry (Igalas have part Yoruba ancestries) as confirmed by the Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni in a 2017 Sunday Punch newspaper interview. This is why Igala language is classified officially by linguists as a Yoruboid language. There's NO doubt that the influence of the Igalas who are indigenous to parts of Anambra, Enugu, Delta North, and Kogi (including several states in the Middle Belt) led to the inflow of these Yoruba words into modern Ibo lexicon as LOAN words via the Anambra/Igala border lands. Yoruba words such as "Ewure" for goat which is Ewu, "Enu" for mouth which is Onu, "Okuta" for rock or stone which is spelled Okwute in Ibo, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala and Ibo. "Olukumi" or Oluku is an Yoruba word meaning my confidant/protector which is disingenuously corrupted to "Onuku" by the Ibos to refer to the Igalas.

The amount of LOAN WORDS derived from Yoruba language in Ibo language lexicon isn't more than 2%, BUT in Igala language 65% of Yoruba language are in Igala with 35% of Idoma words embedded in Igala language as well.

Last but NOT least, I have seen works of scholars and linguists of Ibo origin online who CLEARLY affirm that Yoruba words such as Akara, Egusi (corrupted to Egwusi by Ibos as a LOAN WORD), Agidi, Moyin-Moyin (which has been bastardized to "mai mai" by Ibos), Elubo (corrupted to alibo by Ibos) etymologically are derived from Yoruba language as LOAN words. [b]The "Longman Ibo-English Dictionary" published many decades ago by an Ibo scholar and a European scholar CLEARLY states that "Egwusi" is a LOAN word derived by the Ibos from the Yorubas (YOR) who spell it as Egusi. Elili is the actual Ibo word for Egusi. [/b] I also read that different parts of Ibo have different names for the same thing. The original spelling of "Moyin-Moyin" alternatively shortened to "Moin-Moin" with the letter "Y" removed in recent history is simultaneously called "Olele" which are both Yoruba words emphasizing the "stickiness" of the beans pudding. The Yoruba name for Walnut is both called "Asala" and "Ausa" depending on regional variations in Yorubaland. "Ugbo" and "Igbo," mean forest or bush in Yoruba. "Ule and "Ile" mean land in Yoruba. Oma and Omo mean child or indigene in Yoruba language.

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Wulfruna:
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