25 English Words That You wouldn't believe Were Borrowed From Igbo Language


Igbo kwenu! I always feel like crying whenever I see teachers or parents flog their children because they were speaking Igbo language. They want their children to speak English not knowing that the English they want their children to speak was borrowed from Igbo.

Do you know that there are more than a thousand words in English, French, Latin, Hebrew and other languages that were borrowed from Igbo Language. Did I just hear you say ”na lie” ? Ok. Because of space, let me only give you 25 English words stolen from Igbo language.

1. Cherubim – Borrowed from Igbo phrase ‘’chere ubim’’ which means ‘’guard my home’’

2. Book – Borrowed from Igbo phrase “bu uka’’ meaning ‘’carries the facts’’

3. Water – Stolen from Igbo word ‘’wuta’’ which means ‘’pour’’

4. Nurse – Coined from the phrase ‘’noro nso’’ meaning ‘’stay near’’

5. Animal – Coined from the Igbo phrase ‘’anu malu’’ which when translated means ‘’meat that knows’’ or ‘’flesh aware of life’’ or ‘’meat is conscious’’

6. Bank – Got from the phrase ‘’uba na aka’’ meaning ‘’wealth at hand’’

7. Harlot – Coined from ‘’ha laa otu’’ meaning ‘’they had sex’’

8. Say – stolen from Igbo word ‘’Si’’ which means say

9. Answer – got from ‘’nsa’’ which means ‘’response’’

10. Carpenter – coined from the phrase ‘’ka apita’’ which means ‘’carve out’’

11. News – got from ‘’nu zuo’’ which means ‘’hear it all’’

12. Soccer – coined from ‘’oso ka’’ which means ‘’running is greater’’ or “there is more running done’’ or ‘’greater at running’



See 13 - 25 FROM THE SOURCE: http://www.2000viewsng.com/2016/10/25-english-words-that-you-were-borrowed.html

For real

Ok

Na waoh! Igbo peeps will coin anything just to form relevance! Their is a linguistic lineage to many languages on earth but this is falsity propounded by one palm wine drinking fellow...

@OP, it's obvious you're trying hard to out do Mr. LAI in this field. Only that yours is not yet aired on NTA and hasn't hit the front pages of national papers.
Keep trying...

This is probably the most stupid thŕead I have read on nairaland. I have read threads by Mr Olodo, Andyblaze, born2fuck.e.t.c. Somehow, this thread still beats all of theirs in stupidity.

Dude, u gat no point, this piece of shit doesn't corelate at all.
Can Google back up your claim?

deeplow:
This is probably the most stupid thŕead I have read on nairaland. I have read threads by Mr Olodo, Andyblaze, born2fuck.e.t.c. Somehow, this thread still beats all of theirs in stupidity.

bro I dea tell u

This op must've smoked that sh!t R.Kelly smoked that made him to believe that he could fly!

deeplow:
This is probably the most stupid thŕead I have read on nairaland. I have read threads by Mr Olodo, Andyblaze, born2fuck.e.t.c. Somehow, this thread still beats all of theirs in stupidity.

How do you mean stupid, No language is self contained, they borrow words they don't have to complement the ones they have.
Even some youruba words were coine3d from Hausa, Arabic etc

Adekanyeope:

How do you mean stupid, No language is self contained, they borrow words they don't have to complement the ones they have.
Even some youruba words were coine3d from Hausa, Arabic etc

Book is a word as old as the English language itself. When did the English travel to Africa for the word to have its root here? Most of the words here are as old as the language itself. Are you saying they had another word for water before they encountered the igbo.

The one I find most ridiculous is Soccer. Didn't you take time to think about this thing before you believed and posted it?

Lol.