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DemonInSiege:
Stop lying, no body has claim here that kpomo is Igbo word, you brought kpomo issue here and keep mentioning it while no one have said anything about it here

It was simply an example of the NUMEROUS words of Yoruba origin that Igbos have now claimed exclusive rights over.. lol, and your comrade babaIbo simply confirmed it, by even daring to arrempt an argument with me over the origin of that word.

Goodbye.

BabaIbo:
and your forefather came down with baba abi?

Exactly.

Baba is yoruba but Papa is never Igbo it came with the whites and the catholic church.
Tell me any Igbo born and dead before the colonial era that call their father “Papa”

BabaIbo:
you're confused guys...

what about the nasal sound in nma, ndidi, olanma, nne, onye, onyi, nkem and others... what about mmiri,mpa etc... you need the truth and it will set you free...

Those are different from ehhhhn.

Standard igbo words dont end in such nasals: ehhhn, uhhhn, ahhhn, ohhhn etc except some dialects like Ngwa that pronounce words like Fish (Azu) as Azuñ.

Argue with Reality.

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Igbos laying claim to Yoruba words they use everyday is akin to Igbos laying claim to the word Papa meaning (Father) because they now use it in Igbo language.

Papa was never part of the Igbo language from antiquity but now it is.
Such is life.

DemonInSiege:
Mr. Man na you mentioned kpomo here and na you dey argue with yourself,
[b]No one said kpomo is Igbo here[/] but you're bringing it just to deraile this thread

Your broda BabaIbo would bet to disagree.

BabaIbo:
I think this will help you to know better, who owns it

Guy just stop. There is no eeeeeehhnnn sound in standard Igbo.

What you guyz can have is ehh ehhh! .

BabaIbo:
I think this will help you to know better, who owns it

Guy just stothere ia no eeeeeehhnnn sound in standard Igbo.

What you guyz can have is ehh ehhh.

Chukazu:
Your claim on borrowed words is completely unverifiable and unsubstantiated

Which part

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

osikapa,..... shinkafa

which one is borrowed to you?

Stop fooling Yourself Shinkafa is Hausa pure and simple.
Same way you guyz borrowed the Kaun we use in cooking and started calling it Kanwu to remove the nasal vowel ending to fit igbotic phonics.

BabaIbo:
this is same thing I was saying the other time and some people here were saying I fall hand

nko in igbo and nko in yoruba...

from what he typed here if someone is arguing with him will you know the guy is talking about

for that girl that types in red font and laydoh can you see that my silence to you guys was as a result of the low insight you people have....

scholes0

egwu has numerous meaning in igbo, e.g dance deadly
fright, horror
music, panic
alarming, be afraid
concert, dangerously
fears, dances
orchestra, terrible
fear, formidable
earthshaking, threatened
fearsome, tracks
awesome, be scared
terrific, afraid
alarmingly, frightened...


let me ask you which tribe owns that infamous sound "ehn ehn"?

I bet you will say yoruba in your deluded mind or believe

I would say Yorubas own ehn ehn because it ends in a Nasal vowel.
So many of my Igbo friends cant even pronounce such Yoruba words right. Some call Funmi : Fumi and call Akin: Aki ... Lol

Are those the same people than want to clain ehhn ehn?

Only Edos can pronunce those Yoruba terms without an accent or deformation.

Besides, the pronunciation of the Yoruboid Egwú is different from Egwu (dance) / (danger) you listed up there. They are therefore not the same words going by the rules of tonal languages.

maestroferddi:
We really need to look into African history which was majorly written by Europeans.

It appears Igbos must have influenced Yorubas one way or the other because the frequency of etymological similarities is rather curious ...

Ogwu and ogun - medicine

Iba is clearly a traditional Igbo word for malaria...If Yorubas use it, they are doing borrow borrow...

Borro borro ko.... Yoruboids bound Igbos directly or indirectly on two sides, while Yorubas don't share border with any known igboid peoples.

Who is borrowing what?

Do you even know that conc Nsukka Igbo might contain up to 15% Yoruba-ish words?

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BabaIbo:
it's called mmanwu...

can you tell me the Yoruba word for Rice

Rice is Iresi in Yoruba via English.

While Igbos use a borrowed Hausa term.

Probz:
That’s exactly my point. If I said so heads would be rolling. But it’s alright for you to make sweeping Yoruba generalisations?

Egwu-egwu.

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.

Probz:
“Egusi sounds too Yorubaish to me.”

Revolutionary evidence.

“Oyinbo sounds too Igbotic for me. Ogiri sounds too Igbotic to be shared with Yoruba. Akara sounds too Igbo.”

That way round and you’d have a heart attack. Or is it somehow different?

What is so Igbotic about Oyinbo and Akara?
Lol Akara that is the favorite food of was it Sango or one of these 14th century Yoruba figures.
Ogiri is under contention. That one might be an actual shared word from antiquity like Iba.


What is the Igbo word for masquerade?

BabaIbo:
but you didn't remember this question when you digressed to talk about traditional medicine, ewuro, efo and others, right?

it's now that you remember that we should follow the thread or topic... typical yoruba boy(betrayals), I know how to handle your type...

What is this one saying abeg?
Whatbis the Igbo word for Agbero?

lol

BabaIbo:
mumu na the word you dey talk before?


don't change your point, check my reply to confirm I wasn't referring to the name and don't try to derail from our argument please

You werent referring to THE NAME? but please what is this thread all about pls?
Aren’t we all arguing about the origin of words here?

What were you referring to then? Mr referrer.

Probz:
Where’s the evidence that egusi’s an exclusively Yoruba thing?

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.

maestroferddi:
Fine. Now what is the Yoruba word for Ogwu Iba?

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

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. We also have Tete, Shoko yokoto (another spinach), Ewedu

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.

BabaIbo:
Guy are you for real, swear that you can't use jide for stand up or rise up... why do yorubas call it Ojo ajinde and not Ojo adinde...

it's a case of one part using dide and others using jide... you need to go back to your brown roof village to get yoruba tutor from your people...

Jide is more general than dide, Q.E.D

Oh lord, pls don’t let me ever see you anywhere saying you understand Yoruba again, especially not with this rubbish you just wrote.

You don’t understand Youruba 1 kobo.

BabaIbo:
mumu tinko is an Igbo word which was derived from the sound it makes when you're eaten it... it's gotten from donkey hide or skin, go to north you and ask who are the major buyer or consumer

after this let's close this case please, I can see you have never been to hausaland before, they eat more sugars than yorubas, they have stronger medicines for jedi-jedi... I understand, you want to claim jedi-jedi just the same way you tried to claim ireke (sugarcane) which is reike or alubosa which is alibasa abi...

ask yourself one question do you consume more sugar than them or do you suffer the ailment than them...

again, do you cultivate sugarcane and alibasa (onions) more than them, they are the ones supplying you all those things so why do you think the name originated from buyers angle instead of the supplier (producers) angle

See someone who claims to have taken first in Yoruba language at his school arguing with me about the origin of Jedi Jedi.
lol first from the back of that class list maybe.
Either that, Or maybe your school was filled with Igbos only or complete Olodo yoruba boys and girls.

Reke and Alubosa are Hausa and Arabic words respectively- nobody is arguing that. It is so funny the way you keep bringing the unrelated Hausas into this discussion. Hausa language isn’t even Niger Congo yet I can still point to many Hausa terms of Yoruba origin.
Is there any Hausa word of Igbo origin? (just for curiosity)

Pls focus on the topic at hand or let the discussion end there like you already proposed.

BabaIbo:
Cabra, I have toured yorubaland more than you do...

idiota, you're contradicting yourself... don't change your stance, you said efo is spinach and I said efo is a general name for leave(must I tell you I mean edible ones)
I took first in school in yoruba language I was given a cane to flog people like you who think they know it more than others because it's their language

lol you have toured Yorubaland more than me in your previous live maybe. But definitely not this one.

You were arguing with two people mind you. I wasn’t the one wbo said efo is spinach.

SPINACH in Yoruba is Efo tete.
BITTER LEAF Is Efo Ewuro
WATER LEAF is Efo Gbure

Etc Like that, like that depending on the particilular specie of EDIBLE vegetable LEAVES.

Your knowledge of Yoruba language is like a toddler just picking up terminologies in a new tongue at the level which I am at. I can bet you don’t even understand Igbo as much as I understand Yoruba.

Too bad

BabaIbo:
is jedi-jedi a yoruba word or a hausa word?

yeas you said there is an English adage...

so you have all decided to claim all the traditional mixtures you learnt from hausas as yorubas own

And you claim to understand Nigerian languages. Lol ashe you be o2
How can jedijedi be Hausa?

If it exists in hausa that it came from Yoruba.

BabaIbo:
mumu tinko is an Igbo word which was derived from the sound it makes when you're eaten it... it's gotten from donkey hide or skin, go to north you and ask who are the major buyer or consumer...

Tinko is not Igbo... Lol take it or drop it.
But I won’t argue with you cause I have seen your precedents on this thread.

The other word Kanda isn’t Igbo either.

BabaIbo:
idio.t but you said Akara and kpomo which is fried beans pud and animal hide or skin respectively are borrowed from yoruba.

you are just too stupi.d, efo is a yoruba word for leave, it's like calling premier or Eva oshe!

Dios mio , efo isn’t just any leaf, but edible vegetables.
Igalas call it Alefo. Or ‘Obo Alefo’ (Vegetable soup)
Don’t be forming like you underatand actual Yoruba simply because you were exposed to 2 months of broken Yoruba in Isolo.
The Yoruba word for leaf is Ewé.

IjeleNwa:
with your comment,I can't argue with you

You want to also claim Kpomo like your brother?
Even that other word “tinko” that one of your bros mentioned is not Igbo either.

BabaIbo:
sharap it was as a result of igbos presence... take it or leave it... there are traditional medicines you borrow from other tribes and as time goes on, you convert it to your own, that's the case of bitter leave... what yoruba call ewuro is that bitter thing inside hen... lol, don't call it English adage, it's yoruba adage please...

FYI Igbos are the one known to use it for soup n medicine, yorubas borrowed the medicinal part...


Ojooo o!!! you don't know anything, your head is empty, do research please

Omg, am I dreaming? lol.

Yorubas and Igbos who better pass for traditional medicine? lol .. don’t make me laugh.
Even today you all have abandoned all your village dibias and are too busy gulping agbo like there is no tomorrow.
How can Igbos introduce Ewuro into Yorubaland? I thought you were saying before that there is nothing like Ewuro?

What is your I.Q pls? Did I say that it was an English proverb?

What is the Igbo word for Jedi-jedi?

Probz:
Am I now a Babatunde?

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

Is your name generic?

RedboneSmith:
Ugu is called fluted pumpkin or fluted gourd in English, and it is native to West Africa. Look it up.

Probably its natural spread didn't extend into Yorubaland.

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