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bigfrancis21:
Haha...you for mention me at least na make I enter here finish people like scholes0

It's amazing how these people come back to life on Igbo threads. Honestly speaking, 'Igbo' should be the miraculous word to wake up many people up from the dead.

bigfrancis21:
Oh boy, where was I when this thread was vibrating red?

Probz nwanna, I siro ka I kpo mu?

mabea:
kpomo is kanda in igbo

BabaIbo:
sorry for saying this, I doubt it, you are not igbo...

is there any proof to back what you mentioned above

BabaIbo:
borrowed hausa language, lol... guy you funny

osikapa,..... shinkafa

which one is borrowed to you?

scholes0:
Baba probz I have always known you to be someone that diacusses on a high level of brain power (Intellectual discusser), so me and you can’t have any long lasting issues.
Lets just try to iron some few things out and we will be fine - unlike some others on this thread.
Honestly, I am not trying to psych you up or anything.

Egwu as I know it to be isn’t a general igbo word, am I right?
I thought Igbos generally call masquerades Mmanwu? Similar to the word Mmuo (spirits)?

Egwu/Egun is of Yoruboid origin meaning masquerades , spirits or ancestors.

SakuraSimiola:
Someone should cook Igbo salad!

scholes0:
What is so Igbotic about Oyinbo and Akara?
Lol Akara that is rhe favorite food of was it Sango or one of these 5th century Yoruba figures.
Ogiri is under contention. That one might be an actual shared word from antiquity like Iba.


What is the Igbonword for masquerade?

scholes0:
Egusi sounds too Yorubaish me.
It was also listed in the compiled word list of the Yoruba language in our first modern dictionary.

Egwushi sounds Igbo though if you modify the spelling of Egusi to fit the Igbo way of articulating words.

konoplyanka:
Lol so it's a shared word now?

Ok keep Sharing our words o.

scholes0:
that sounds so Yoruba already, mr.
Ogun Iba is the word.

Ogun - Medicine
Iba - Malaria/High fever

Ha- Igbos don steal all our terms finish ooo

scholes0:
lol, at this stage, I am even wondering if they have claimed the word Dodo (fried plantain) as well.
I think they would have o.

baby124:
Lmao. I am obviously arguing with a jobless person. Akara, ponmo, egusi are all Yoruba words. In fact there is different Egusi cooking methods by Yoruba group, but one thing in common is the way they make the base. Spinach is popularly called just Efo. But it’s really Efo amunututu. I am done arguing with you. Soon you will say Shaki is an Igbo word.

scholes0:
Probably.
Yorubas have never laid any claims to owning ugu at any time anyways.

scholes0:
Nope not that either.
Why are you mentioning generic names?

Is your name generic?

scholes0:
Do Igbos put shit in the soil there to make the flutted ones grow? lol

Plant it in Kumasi it will grow puleeese.

BabaIbo:
Lair have you ever eaten a soup called ewuro soup before, if not don't quote me again please...

It was when igbos got to these place that they started cultivating those things here or maybe it was in the forest but they were not aware of its usefulness, even up till now there is no specific thing yorubas use ewuro for...

scholes0:
Me.

scholes0:
Says who?
Is there some kind of weather phenomena isolated to delta state or SE?
Or you meant to write something else?

Jimbadly:
Onugbu is the king of soups in Igbo land, especially where I come from. The main soup prepared in every ceremonial occasion. The first soup that our fore fathers ever cooked. Very nutritional and medicinal.

I prefer it non bitter.

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.

bibe:
Another Igbo word for banana is unere.

bibe:
Another Igbo word for banana is unere.

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..

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.

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.

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.