₦airaland Forum

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...

See mumu

Ewuro is a soup and it is also a herb in Yorubaand.

We have a proverb that goes “Ewuro Lagba Igi”. ewuro is the eldeest of trees.
Also one that goes in english “Your problems might be bitter in the begining, but like Ewuro it is sure to become sweet in the end”

Shukudi, Take your time and stop making silly assumptions oooo

Probz:
Ordinary pumpkin leaves but not fluted pumpkin leaves (ugu). Jump up and fight me from behind the screen if you want but it’s true.

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

Plant it in Kumasi it will grow puleeese.

Probz:
My name’s nowhere close to Obinna? According to who?

Me.

Probz:
But fluted pumpkin leaves don’t grow further west than Delta State.

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

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..

Sharap there Bitterleaf is Ewuro in Yoruba and it is used to cook very well (Google Obe Ewuro) and see for yourself. 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.

konoplyanka:
Please stop with your ignorance. Yoruba just know ibo I n less than 150 years ago. We had nothing in common and didn't have any contact before the Advent of the colonialists. Ibos it is easy to borrow words from hausas which we have had contact with for centuries than ibos. Also, Edo had influence on ibos and could have made borrowing yoruba words easy.

You don't borrow words from people in foreign land unless they come to learn from your land.

Most of these Yoruba words in Igbo are less that 50 years old, not to mention 150. Although many more ete even okder.
And the infusion is still going on.

Also many Yoruboid words entered Ika and Northern Igbo dialects that you won’t find in places like Abia or Imo. Go and fight with history not me.

I don’t know about Igbo but Yorubas were in contact with pretty much every ethnic group in southern Nigeria, Northern nigeria and Dahomey including Igbos. except Ibibios.

Yoruba contact with Igbos did happen.
There are Okukumi communities in Anioma for example.

Those Igbos in the Imo basin and all those Abia people on the other hand only had little contact with the rest of Nigeria.

Probz:
and some Yorubas on here want to lay exclusive claim to words that are shared between Igbo and Yoruba.

Ogede’s one of them. Comman fight Obinna.

lol your name is nowhere close to Obinna.

I wish I understood more Igbo though, so that i could bust many of your claims.

Chukazu:
The same way you borrowed " ugu" leave from igbo

He who borrowed whatever doesn't make anyone less or more of a human

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.

Probz:
There’s no other word for banana in Igbo than ogede. That one’s also shared.

I saw you quote me just before. Did you think I’d reaffirm what you want to believe to boost your Yoruba ego?

Haa, they have already claimed Ogede oo

David is Dahud not Idris.

Idris should be prophet Enoch.

BabaIbo:
I think you should answer that question yourself because you are the one that claimed it is a Yoruba word?

Whatvis there to answer, it is as Yorub as any Yoruba word can get.

The popular mode of transport in the East known as “Keke”, I doubt you even kbow it is a Yoruba word.

There are tonns of words Igbos use day in, day out- But of which they aren’t even aware are Yoruba words.

BabaIbo:
Argue with your sense na,

tell me any yoruba word that has kp in it please but I will tell yiu Igbo words with kp e.g okpa and so... that should tell you something or send a signal to you

Stop beating around the bush of Igborance pls.

Is Kpomo an igbo word?

Say yes and let me know how much of a “cultural vulture” you are.

somegirl1:

Cow skin was not considered to be food by the Igbos until fairly recently. It's no surprise that there's no popular word in it Igbo language for cow skin.
To this day, it's not as popular a delicacy in the east as it is in the West.

Thank you jare my sister.

That is how one Igbo guy was arguing with me the other day that “Nko” is an Igbo word because they now use it.

I was like.... Jesu!

BabaIbo:
you're confused, yorubas pronounced kpomo as ponmo, don't say what you don't know... you are so pathetic, gele yoruba word for scarf, scarf has been with man from time immemorial, every region has their own word got scarf.. so don't claim it as a yoruba word pls

This your reply shows how confused you are.
Yorubas don’t spell KP but the sound exists in the Yoruba language.
What are you saying sef? Are you using style to claim “Kpomo” as an Igbo word?

baby124:
Very funny indeed. No other subgroup in the North apart from Okun and the Kwara’s have so many similar Yoruba words in their language. They also seem to have been a roaming group because they ended up in Edo and the East. Igala’s even sing like Yoruba. You need to watch them on YouTube and laugh your ass out.

I suspect they got to their location from Yorubaland, through Edo and into the East before getting to their final destination. Because they roam so much, they could have settled with other groups like they settled with the Igbo and Edos. Those groups may have come from Taraba. The Igala language to Yoruba’s is like an Itshekiri speaking. You can understand every other word. I was surprised when an Igala spoke their language in front of me. Though intonation is different, I can understand or have an idea of what they are talking about.

They probably wouldn’t survive in Yorubaland as a distinct group because the language is not so far off. They would be easily absorbed.

Don’t forget the Idoma angle.
One of these older European anthropologists said it very long time ago that Igala is a Yoruba dialect that has fused with Idoma.

He was probably not too far off.
That is what gives the language its distinctiveness.

IjeleNwa:
are you confused,you spelt "kpomo" in igbo form. Pls spell it in yoruba form before I reply u properly

Spelling is not the crux of the matter but pronunciation.

Nothing like Kpomo spelling in Igbo form, because the word isn’t even Igbo to begin with.

BabaIbo:
Argue with fact and not as a pained tribalist
for your info Yoruba borrowed more words from other major tribes than they borrow from yoruba due to shortage in their letters( e.g letter C)

words that yorubas borrowed are: Alubosa, originally alibasa in hausa, ireke(sugarcane originally reike in hausa (sugarcane), rodo(a specie of pepper) is originally a hausa word, egusi, akara and others

See this one, no one is arguing the presense of some Arabic and Hausa words in Yoruba due to centuries of contact.. We all know what words in Yoruba are of Hausa origin via Nupe and others.

Besides there are Hausa words of Yoruba origin as well, such as Ashishi (Eshinshin) Housefly, Agwaluma (Agbalumo) African star apple, Alade (Elede) Pig Etc. There is many more.

So Yoruba and Hausa borrowing goes both ways.

There are plenty Hausa words in Igbo too don’t lie and pretend as if Hausa words exist only in yoruba, lol- that means the Igbo language is the most deficient in nigeria, cause they pick words from every corner.
The bone of contention here are YORUBA authentic words that have diffused into languages like Igbo which they now claim today like AKARA, EGUSI, etc.

Very soon, Igbos will claim Kpomo, Gele, Ogede and many more Yoruba words.

Just watch.

RedboneSmith:
I clearly remember some Eastern Yoruba people here saying no one says 'Esusu' where they come from. So it isn't general, even if through contact etc, everyone in Yorubaland now understands what it refers to.

Everyone in Igboland also understands and uses Soso. Even if one part uses it more.

That is because Esusu is the older term in Yoruba language. Ajo is a recent coined word that simply means “Pull together”
Some older Yoruba words are giving way to newer terms.

Even right now, Ajo has become more popular than Esusu because its meaning make more practical sense to the Younger generation of today.

ken2baba:
lol

That's clearly an igbo word


Soso gi = only you

Soso is Yoruba 101% , go and ask anywhere.

IjeleNwa:
you lied, "Akara" is originally gotten from igbo before it become a lingua word. Same as "oyibo" which Yoruba pronounced as "oyinbo" bcus they adopted it. It either u talking as a tribalist or as a naïve writer. Pls make findings from proper source before u write.

Pls this is pure lies.

What is the Igbo word for Kpomo?

baby124:
Igala were once under the larger Yoruba family. They have a lot of similar words. Though separation of the group has been for long. Agwa and Ewa is similar. Even Igbos and Yoruba at some point were probably related or some words were infused into Igbo language through Igala. We have some similar words.

It would appear so on the surface.

But the Igals instead trace their origin to faraway Taraba state.
Very funny.

BabaIbo:
Go back to school, egwusi/egusi and ogiri are exclusively igbo words borrowed by yorubas

Nothing like EGWusi, it is Egusi, and it is it of Yoruba origin.

Igbos are the ones who add GW to words that have vowels following G.

The same way Igbos pronounce the Hausa word for Kolanut “Goro” as GWORO

Same word which both Yoruba and Igalas call Obi.

RedboneSmith:
I knew you were gong to say that. Ajo, Esusu. Do you think the Yoruba borrowed one from an external language?

Ajo and Esusu are the same thing. In Yoruba.

I can replace one with the other, anywhere in yorubaland.

RedboneSmith:
One of those shared words. Around Anambra it is 'soso', too. In much of Imo it is 'naani'.

The fact that it isn't even a universally shared Igbo word points more in the direction of it diffusing into the Anambra axis from an external language source.

RedboneSmith:
One of those shared words. Around Anambra it is 'soso', too. In much of Imo it is 'naani'.

That word Agwa for beans too looks very similar to what the Yoruba version of the word would be.

Sure it isn't from Igala?

cc: Probz

Isn't "SOSO" the Yoruba word for Only?

This man is pouring salt inside ocean

lol

Possibly the WORST name they could have ever chosen for such a thing. (As bad enough as it was already)

Colony?

Everyone with an above average grasp of the English Language knows that wherever there is a COLONY, then there is sure to be a COLONIZED.

low IQ post.

Mr Onyemobi Chuks wants to “Dehvaylope” her.

Thinking in thick Igbotic accent

Can only be Yoruba

Beauty and Brains.
Where are my Omoluabis at?

Kingdolo:
This is not an achievement anymore. We need inventions, scientific breakthroughs. Not some piece of paper.
Not hating, Just my thoughts.

What you are doing is the EXACT definition of hating. Even if you don’t like her, Just celebrate her success which is the product of her hard work and move on.

Egbon, obtaining first class is no achievement, go and “collect” ya own.

goestohell:
There is a certain group of people with cone heads in Nigeria. Even the crown of their traditional rulers are cone shaped.

That only exist in your imagination. Some people in Nigeria have battered head shapes and heads shaped like beer parlor benches and 0 ‘ogor’ which every other homo sapiens have.

90% of Nigerians can spot then from 10 miles away from their head shapes alone.