Americofficial:
Hi guys, not sure this is the right place to post this but ive just joined and need some help with some igbo. Can anyone tell me what olugbajie boys are or means?

Thanks

Rico

Seths:
Hi guys i just joined in and i need some help with yuroba. can anyone tell me what the following means in yuroba:
good morning?
how are you?
how was your day?
what are you upto ?


thanks

ifyalways:
In Igbo :
Birthday :Ubochi a muru onye
celebration:Mme-mme/Emume
Phlegm:ajo aso/onu mmiri
Gold digger:Onye-ocho-nga-n'oko 

smile4kenn:
Obodo means place Ile means Home

smile4kenn:
Obodo means place Ile means Home

AloyEmeka9:
Candle:

Igbo: Ori ona

Yoruba: ?

Hausa: ?

Key:

Igbo: Mgbachi .... key is igodo

Yoruba:?

Hausa:?


Padlock
Igbo: igodo

Yoruba:?

Hausa:?


N/B:
If you have other translations like Benin, Fufulde, Efik, Ibibio, Urhobo etc please add them.

RussiaWithLove:
Please can somebody help me with yoruba language? would like it to be through Skype, am one of those whose parents didn't install it. i can pay per hour through PayPal. My timezone is eastern standard zone (U.S. East Coast), i know only the very basics but cannot hold down a conversation. let me know please, my email dodgersbaseball5@gmail.com

AloyEmeka9:
Candle:

Igbo: Ori ona

Yoruba: ? fìtílà/àbélà

Hausa: ?

Key:

Igbo: Mgbachi

Yoruba:? kókóró

Hausa:?


Padlock
Igbo: igodo

Yoruba:? àgádágodo

Hausa:?


N/B:
If you have other translations like Benin, Fufulde, Efik, Ibibio, Urhobo etc please add them.

ChinenyeN:
I can't claim to have any sort of answer to the 'ejima' question, speculative or otherwise. I can say though that I have thought about the etymology of 'ejima' before, and I too came to conclude that it was weird term. The problem I have had with 'ejima' is two-fold.

1. The lack of a satisfactory explanation of its etymology.
2. The lack of lexical variation.

Over the years that I have observed/studied Igbo, I've come to see Igbo words as being placed in one of three categories: Proto, Pre-colonial and Modern. Not much differentiates these categories except that the degree of lexical variation for general words decreases exponentially as one goes from proto to modern. There is also an apparent correlation between this downward trend in variation and the upward trend in traceable etymology. Of course, this isn't set it stone. It's more like a practically applicable, general guideline, except in cases like 'ejima'. The lack of a satisfactory etymological explanation tempts us to want to put 'ejima' farther back in lexical history. Yet, the occurrence of the word is completely devoid of any lexical variation whatsoever (to the best of our collective knowledge), tempting us to want to say that the word may be recent, relative to the time period between proto and modern. It's a paradox.

I can't claim to have any sort of resolution for the paradox, but one thing I am [mostly] convinced of is that 'ejima' does not have its roots in the proto period (but, I'm not a linguist, so my conviction is amateurish at best). I believe that if the lexical history of 'ejima' extended that far back (proto period), then there is an increased likelihood that the word would have since been displaced in at least a few of the surviving lects. If not that, then the sound shifts between proto and modern would have at least caused significant variation in pronunciation between lects. We see no evidence of either. We can also be sure that the word is not modern, because if it were, it's etymology would most likely be immediately traceable. With that, I'm tempted to say that occurrence of 'ejima' likely goes back to the pre-colonial period. It would take more critical thinking before either of us could lands on any satisfactory, speculative conclusion.

aribisala0:
Is there a word for TRIPLETS?

ChinenyeN:


It will still be 'ejima'. At least, that is what I grew up hearing when people referred to multiple births of any kind.

AjaanaOka:
After two we just add the number to 'ejima'.

Hence, ejima ito, ejima ino, and so on.

RussiaWithLove:
Please can somebody help me with yoruba language? would like it to be through Skype, am one of those whose parents didn't install it. i can pay per hour through PayPal. My timezone is eastern standard zone (U.S. East Coast), i know only the very basics but cannot hold down a conversation. let me know please, my email dodgersbaseball5@gmail.com