Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0, zero |
| 0shị | now, right now, instantly |
| 1 | 1, one |
| 1ré• | eleven, 11 |
| 1ọ• | God bless, goodbye, thank you |
| 2 | 2, two |
| 2chere• | 20, twenty |
| 2dawé• | 200, two hundred |
| 2ré• | twelve, 12 |
| 2wọ | sex, reproduce, mate |
| 3 | 3, three |
| 3chere• | 30, thirty |
| 3dawé• | 300, three hundred |
| 3ré• | thirteen, 13 |
| 4 | 4, four |
| 4chere• | 40, forty |
| 4dawé• | 400, four hundred |
| 4ré• | fourteen, 14 |
| 5 | 5, five |
| 5chere• | 50, fifty |
| 5dawé• | 500, five hundred |
| 5ré• | fifteen, 15 |
| 6 | 6, six |
| 6chere• | 60, sixty |
| 6dawé• | 600, six hundred |
| 6ré• | sixteen, 16 |
| 7 | 7, seven |
| 7chere• | 70, seventy |
| 7dawé• | 700, seven hundred |
| 7ré• | seventeen, 17 |
| 8 | 8, eight |
| 8chere• | 80, eighty |
| 8dawé• | 800, eight hundred |
| 8ré• | eighteen, 18 |
| 9 | 9, nine |
| 9chere• | 90, ninety |
| 9dawé• | 900, nine hundred |
| 9ré• | nineteen, 19 |
| Gwọ m ọ | Oh my God |
| Kọza | Earth |
| Nkamụọ• | Nkamụọ language; guards |
| Nkamụọ | nkamoor, nkamụọ, nkamuo |
| Vụẹfíba | A dialect of Nkamuo, vuefiba, vụẹfíba A writing script for the vụẹfíba |
| achọọ | annoyance |
| adoroju | hello; greeting |
| afúwú | bark |
| afẹ́ | tree |
| agì | lake |
| agí | sea |
| akpalụọ | eye |
| akpalụọ wụọ! | common sense (slang/colloq) |
| akífì | fire |
| ama | leaf |
| amonyi | a ride, ride |
| aniki | gang, street gang |
| anyukẹ́ | snake |
| aso | moon |
| awi | child |
| azikọ̀ | animal |
| baajaja | hunt |
| baba | smooth |
| baka | tie |
| banwu | belly |
| bugịfọ | five |
| bujọtọ | father |
| bé | see |
| bé akpalụọ | to see clearly, to use common sense colloq |
| bémo | to be equal; fair |
| bí | knead, knead dough |
| bẹkẹ | sky |
| bẹkọ | man |
| bẹkọala• | husband |
| bẹwi | tell, snitch |
| bẹ́kwụ́ | dig |
| bẹ́lẹ́kì | wet |
| bịzo | six |
| bọ | with |
| bọbọ àkèdẹ́• | village |
| bọbọshaabi | chapter |
| bọgatọ | daughter; female child |
| bọtọ | son; male child |
| bọ́bọ́ | small |
| bọ́zọ́ | seven |
| bụkwọzịe | join, come |
| cha | know |
| chagba | knowledge |
| ché ché | multiply |
| chì | be, is, specifically for inanimate objects, exist |
| chì bẹ́lẹ́kì• | to be wet |
| chì bọ́bọ́• | to be small |
| chì fayo | smother, even out, smoothen |
| chì fayà• | to spread, spread |
| chì kpéyíìñ• | to be dead |
| chì kwanọ• | to be heavy |
| chì kwázílá• | to be dirty |
| chì kèdú | to be a weird person, to be an ugly person |
| chì kèkọ́ | to be correct |
| chì nnwàhị́ọ̀• | to be black (non-human) |
| chì nwághọ́• | to be dark |
| chì nwụrụzị | to copy, copy |
| chì nyazị | to be disgusting |
| chì shụfú• | to be old |
| chì yàyó• | to be wide |
| chì òfé• | to be good in quality or looks |
| chì ṅudí• | to be thick |
| chìbọ | late |
| chịbọnze | later |
| chịezegè | kill |
| chịfọ | if |
| chọ | earth |
| chọ achọọ | to annoy, annoying |
| chọ-sị ịsị | working |
| chọhegalakpọnọ | holy; angelic |
| chọọ chọọ | fuck off |
| dawé | 100, hundred, one hundred |
| delado | flow |
| docho | would |
| dé | subtract |
| dí | stone |
| díshi | come |
| díshẹ̀mụụ | liver |
| dẹmẹẹjọ | road |
| e | to |
| echụ | sour |
| efa• | scattered |
| eku | cloth |
| ekụzụgwa | actually; honestly; truthfully |
| elesịdí | boulder, lit. fat stone |
| evé• | tomato |
| ezo | nation, country, civilisation |
| fa | have; own; possess |
| fa efa | to spread, spread |
| faada ufaada• | to cry |
| faafaa | no |
| faakọ́ ẹ́faakọ́• | to fear |
| fi | thousand, 1000, one thousand |
| funyi | fish |
| fà | grow |
| fà shụfú• | to grow old |
| fà ányáákí | to be funny, funny |
| fá nwághọ́• | get dark; grow dark; have no lit vision due to absence of light, especially an environment |
| fákọ́tá | white |
| fé òfé• | to be good in personality |
| fìpọbị | give |
| fìpọbị ílè• | to help, help |
| fìpọbị ịgweti | to let, give power, allow, let, to sell a house, to sell land, cede, to forget a loved one (colloq.) |
| fí | walk |
| fí shì | run |
| fịam̀ ịkèdú | to look weird, to look ugly, weird, ugly |
| fịnwẹ | pepper, spice, flavour |
| fịzeyọ | name |
| fọzọ | near |
| fọ́ | take or follow a path or pattern or manner; from; through |
| fọ́fe• | from; through, based on; judging from |
| gahakọ | because |
| gbam̀ | gunshot, pow, baow, bow |
| gbizi | ever |
| gbíza | fuck; as an insult |
| gbẹmíì | remain; to be left over |
| gbọgatọ | mother |
| gha | you (singular) |
| ghatù | friend |
| ghúzú | build |
| ghúzú eku | sew |
| ghịchọ | pull |
| ghọ | night |
| ghụtụ | head |
| gushẹwọ | when |
| gwịbagọ | join in marriage; marry |
| gwọ | God, deity |
| gwụkwa | return; back to former |
| gé | hand |
| gérékó | finger |
| gìyò | digits, figures |
| gị | not |
| gụbanọ | water |
| ha | self |
| hegala | love |
| hikọshọ́ | short |
| hinaghi | day |
| hinaghizọ̀ | daily |
| hnyọ | market |
| hàá | very; exaggerating the adjective |
| hávẹ́ | lie |
| hịnọ | to be younger than |
| hị́líkẹ | wind |
| họakazụ | rub |
| hụ | she |
| ikeje | neighbourhood |
| ikáni | dangerous |
| inévó• | sauce, paste |
| ití | nine |
| jikwe | key |
| jowu | bird |
| jufaghi | year |
| jugudu | right |
| jé | yellow |
| jịmọọba | please |
| jọ́mẹ̀kwá ọ́jọ́mẹ̀kwá | To write |
| jụmẹ́ọkà | float |
| ka• | plural; multiplier |
| kalichọ | push |
| kawa | we, us, our |
| kaịbata | throw |
| kaụwọ | squeeze |
| kpakpakọ | spit |
| kpamọkpẹfí | horn |
| kpe ọkpe• | to be blue in colour |
| kpáị́ | die |
| kpèkọ | big |
| kpéyíìñ | dead |
| kpóba | all |
| kpọ | he |
| kpọnyọ | nose |
| kpọnọ | heart |
| kpọṅọ | neck |
| kpọọnkọ | monk, missionary |
| kpọọǹzí-1 | yaguian, yaguist |
| kpụwàá | trumpet, horn |
| kupayè ukupayè• | to be narrow |
| kuẹbụ ịkuẹbụ | to tell a lie |
| kwanọ | heavy |
| kwe | hold |
| kwe | add |
| kwázílá | dirty |
| kwọ́ ákwọ́• | to be sharp |
| kàyegụ | bone |
| kààzá• | whimsical, whimsy, whim, The feeling when you laugh so hard you cry |
| kààzá akààzá• | to laugh so hard you cry |
| kàá | union, united |
| kàá aáká | to unite, unification |
| kábị́ | straight |
| kèdú | weird, gross, ugly |
| kèkọ́ | correct |
| ké | what |
| ké? | ? |
| ké? | what? |
| kị | hour |
| kị́gị́ ọ́kị́gị́• | to be red in clour |
| kụ̀bọ | wipe |
| kụ̀wákwákwákwákwá | Horn, trumpet, Sound of a trumpet, Toot, tada |
| kụ́ | be (who, what, whose something or someone is); is; am; are; art |
| kụ́ óha | to live |
| labi | blow |
| labi ányákọ | breathe |
| lè | swell |
| lè èlè• | to be swollen |
| lé | divide |
| lẹbàshò | to mean; show |
| lẹ́ | kneel; kneel down |
| lịakọ | fall |
| m• | me, I |
| maanwa | North |
| mbiítí | infinite, forever |
| mbiíza | fall to death |
| mmịyaọ | meow |
| monyi amonyi | ride, to ride |
| mrishọ | swim |
| mrí émrí • | to be able, to choose, choose |
| mwéyá• | pizza |
| mwọ | my |
| mwọha• | myself, my soul |
| mífe | cold |
| mífeha | to freeze |
| míta | path |
| m̀bàzà | drop, trip and fall |
| m̀bụrịbụ | prefer, favorite |
| m̀chọọ chọọ | onomatopoeia for someone eating, nom nom, poor people (colloq.) |
| m̀mawé | bread |
| m̀m̀ẹẹmmẹẹ | meh, middle class (colloq.) |
| m̀re | ability |
| m̀re ịm̀re | can |
| m̀wábí | dough |
| mẹkwa | Mẹkwa, Mekwa, the script for the majority of nkamuo speaking countries |
| mẹkị | as; like |
| mẹ́gáisi àmẹ́gáisi• | to feel warm |
| mẹẹ | four |
| mị• | I; me (only before a consonant) |
| mọkipọọ | person |
| mụkị | who |
| mụọ | wait around something or someone in order to protect; guard |
| naja | dry |
| naya | mud |
| nbémochí | equally |
| nka | people |
| nkaha | people rule, democracy |
| nkankọ | monks |
| nkaǹzí-1 | yaguists |
| nkunyọ | musician |
| nkọna | river |
| nkọ̀ | think |
| nkọ̀ kọọshị | to assume |
| nkọ̀ yitíduó | to regret; to apologize |
| nnamonyi | riding |
| nnekigi | peperoni, saveloy |
| nnonti | law, rules |
| nnontiha | autonomy, self rule |
| nnwàhị́ọ̀ | black |
| nnwụrụzị | the act of copying, mock, fake, a rip off |
| nnézíkọ | sausage |
| nnọtẹ | full |
| nti | government |
| ntioju• | government official |
| nuru | that |
| nwazu | noise, sound |
| nwazu anwazu | to make a sound |
| nwazu ịrịvọ | bark; proper term |
| nwazụọ | noisy, annoying |
| nwe | hit |
| nwe ákwọ́ | stab |
| nweukwu | city |
| nwuyu | feel; (emotionally), emotion, emotions |
| nwuyu osì | to feel happiness, feel happy |
| nwághọ́ | darkness |
| nwóvewa | nice |
| nwẹ́chị́ | thin |
| nyalọ | where |
| nyalụ | there |
| nyazị | rotten, disgusting |
| nyazịkpọnọ | evil; evil soul/heart |
| nyefi | they, them, their |
| nyetụghi | left |
| nyinè | salt |
| nyoshuñ• | Rock-n-Roll, Rock and Roll |
| nyàyà | ash |
| nyábérá ányábérá• | to speak in a language |
| nyáyà | dust |
| nyáyá | sand |
| nyáákí ányáákí• | to laugh |
| nyịnọ | to be older than |
| nyọbọbọ | dialect |
| nyọ̀ | music |
| nyọ̀yazẹfọnọ | burger music, trash music, fries music, cringy music |
| nyọ́ | stand |
| nze | time |
| nè | in |
| nówí onówí | to be pregnant |
| ǹzí- | -ism |
| ǹzí-1 | yaguism, religion of the Nkamuo people |
| nẹbó | zero, 0 |
| nẹbóshị | check 0ṣị |
| nẹvọshụ | how |
| nọmí | sleep |
| nụgwédị̀ ụnụgwédị̀• | to be hungry |
| nụgwẹ̀bị ụnụgwẹ̀bị• | to be thirsty |
| nụsọwọ | after |
| o | though, tho, although, also |
| ogojá | flower |
| oju | standard, original, official |
| okatì | picture; image; view; art |
| okẹmebo | table |
| okị | new |
| onówi | pregnancy |
| oshuñ | thunder |
| osuñ | rock |
| osì | happy, happiness |
| oyu | Good behavior, great, well-behaved, proper |
| pa | but |
| pàhó | few |
| pó | cloud |
| pọ | fog |
| ra | Or |
| ribà ụ̀ribà• | to be round in shape |
| rigishe | before |
| ro | on, onto, upon |
| ré | +10, teen |
| rékó | branch, stick, twig |
| rífíkí | stupidity, ragebait, foolery, being a idiot |
| rífíkí é? | are you stupid?, you're ragebaiting me, are you ragebaiting me? |
| rịlẹ | forget |
| rịvọ | dog |
| rọkoaka | west |
| rọkụ | boat |
| rọ̀ | this |
| rụrụ | woof, bark |
| rụ̀mrụ̀m | louse |
| sasa | thanks |
| shakafọnu• | promiscuous person, bitch, whore, penis eater, prostitute |
| sho | it |
| shoki | smoke |
| shu adoroju• | goodbye; greeting |
| shágífi | other |
| sháà | after, (wards); therefore or then (resulting from something else) |
| sháábí | book |
| shémọ | swap |
| shémọ ága• | trade |
| shì | fast |
| shìá | mouth |
| shị | waste, to waste time, nonsense, rubbish, trash |
| shụ | out |
| shụfú | old |
| sinó | early |
| sábí | crash; collide |
| sárí | thanks |
| sékị́ | may; might; be likely to happen |
| sìtí | rich, luxury, luxurious |
| sí ásí• | to be green |
| sítí-áníkí | mafia |
| sówi | fertile |
| sị | work |
| sị ịsị | to work, work |
| tanọ | sweet |
| tenyụmụ | rope |
| tikpagbitụ | loanword |
| tákì | three |
| tíkpá | take; recieve |
| tịàshe | care, to care |
| ufaada | cry |
| ukupayè | narrow |
| uké | breast |
| usítí | the rich |
| vẹvụ | woman |
| vẹvụala• | wife |
| vọgbítụ | verb |
| vọjọ | done, happened, did |
| vọ̀ | do; make happen |
| vọ̀ ịsị | to make work, assign work |
| vụrụ | at |
| vụẹwa | tail |
| wabuzị | south |
| wezufa | cook |
| wikèdẹ́• | hamlet; community |
| wo | sit |
| wosi | here |
| wosọku | ear |
| wu | to fly; to levitate |
| wàárù | stop, to stop, halt, pause |
| wákà | nail |
| wọfa | get |
| wọgha | your, thy |
| wọghaha• | yourself, your soul |
| wọnafọ | suck |
| wọra• | of, which, -th |
| wọrabugịfọ• | fifth |
| wọrabịzo• | sixth |
| wọrabọ́zọ́• | seventh |
| wọraití• | ninth |
| wọramẹẹ• | fourth |
| wọratákì• | third |
| wọrayàgú• | first |
| wọraáke• | second |
| wọraáré• | tenth |
| wọ́ | auxiliary part of a future verb; will(future) |
| wọṅị | fuck; sexual |
| wụtò | tough |
| wụ́ | wash |
| wụ́ ọnwọọ | shower; bath; to wash your body |
| yabọ | to scratch |
| yazi• | fermented |
| yazẹfọ | cheese |
| yazẹfọfịam̀• | cheesy; in taste |
| yazẹfọnọ• | corny, cheesy, cringe |
| yefọnu | eat |
| yefọṅunu | bite |
| yidí | gravestone, tombstone |
| yitíduó | sorry |
| yowu | fly |
| yuche | far |
| yàgú | one |
| yàyó | wide |
| yẹ ọyẹ | use |
| yọgị | week; 7 days |
| yụfọvunu | drink |
| za | usually attached to a verb or negator '-gị' to mean 'no longer' 'no more' 'any more' or 'not' to emphasize the first negator |
| zamò | play |
| ze | is; for time |
| ziwe | turn |
| zunu• | to vomit |
| zẹ | bad |
| zẹku | say, talk, chat |
| zẹẹ | the |
| zẹọ | sing |
| zịya | smart |
| zọ | count |
| zọkpa | split |
| zọ̀fà | burn |
| zọ́ | and |
| zụ̀ọ́hie | generate, make, create |
| Òféghọ | Good Night |
| àgịkọ | sacred, holy, hallowed |
| àgọ̀ | ice |
| àkpá | back |
| àkèdẹ́ | town |
| àmẹ́gáisi | warm |
| àzó | king |
| àzóezo• | kingdom |
| àzóezokàá• | United Kingdom |
| ága | goods |
| ágì | rain |
| ágọ́ | snow |
| áke | two |
| ákpà | money |
| ákwọ́ | sharp |
| ámashakaọjịị | penis |
| ányábérá | language |
| ányákọ | breath |
| ányáákí | laugh |
| áré | ten |
| ásí | green |
| ásọ́shị́fọ̀ | seed |
| áyụ | feather |
| áà | well, welp, whatever |
| èbị́azù | worm |
| èlọ́ | star |
| ébiti | whatever |
| ékpó | okay |
| élésị́• | fat |
| émrí | capability |
| évịnévó• | tomato sauce, pasata, ketchup; rarely |
| ézíkọ́ | meat, animal meat |
| íbe | number, a number |
| ídẹvá | many |
| ídị̀ | grass |
| íkà | hot |
| ílè | aid, help |
| ílèsháábí• | guide, guide book, map, (colloq.) |
| íté | why |
| ítíbì | tuberculosis |
| òfé | good |
| òfì | mountain |
| òfìpi | foot |
| óha | life |
| úyé | forest |
| úyó | long |
| ṅudí | thick |
| ṅusi | cut |
| ṅẹkì | minute |
| ṅị | hear, taste, feel, touch, smell, sense something with four of the five sense organs |
| ṅị baba• | feel smooth; be smooth |
| ṅị bẹ́lẹ́kì• | to feel wet |
| ṅị kpọnyọ | smell |
| ṅị mífe | to feel cold |
| ṅị shìá | taste |
| ṅị wosọku | hear |
| ṅị íkà | to feel hot |
| ṅị ọzunu | nausea; cause a feeling to vomit |
| ṅị ụzịịba | to taste flavour |
| ṅịshi | heaven |
| ṅọ | for |
| ṅọkwọ ọ́ṅọkwọ• | to fight |
| ṅọkwọ ụvokwụ• | to fight a war |
| ṅọkị | group |
| ṅọshose | hair |
| ẹgọ | wait, to wait |
| ẹgọwàárù | Wait and think, think before you speak, lit. wait and stop |
| ẹkuukpọ | pronoun |
| ẹzụ̀ | loud |
| ẹ́faakọ́ | fear |
| ẹ́fị | skin |
| ẹ́ghá | tooth |
| ẹ́ju | you (plural) |
| ẹ́kí | thing |
| ẹ́yụ̀ | naughty, bad behaviour |
| ẹ́zíkọ́ | non-human body |
| ịgweti | a memory, family home, nostalgia |
| ịgwetim | let me, (colloq/slang) |
| ịja | arm |
| ịjowụ | chick, baby chicken, baby bird |
| ịjị | leg |
| ịke | brain |
| ịkuẹbụ | a false information; lie |
| ịkweti | equator, middle of the Kozam world |
| ịtabụẹ | vagina |
| ị́kwá | script, type of writing, a writing system Writing system |
| ọ! | ! |
| ọbọ | what (as an adverb) |
| ọchigwa | amen |
| ọfabụ | dull |
| ọfù | egg |
| ọfịam̀ | to look like something, seem, look like, appearance |
| ọga | eight |
| ọha | yes |
| ọjà | peace |
| ọkpe | blue |
| ọkwadịnụ | knee |
| ọkịgafẹ́ | brazilwood |
| ọnugu | east |
| ọnwọọ | body |
| ọyabọ | scratch |
| ọzunu | vomit |
| ọñliñ• | online |
| ọ̀fọ̀ | root |
| ọ̀mọ̀ajoka | planet |
| ọ́fá | blood |
| ọ́fá | sun |
| ọ́jọ́mẹ̀kwá | Writing |
| ọ́kị́gị́ | red |
| ọ́ṅọkwọ | fight |
| ụgbítụ | word |
| ụnụgwédị̀ | hunger |
| ụnụgwẹ̀bị | thirst |
| ụvọkwụ | war |
| ụyú | behavior |
| ụzíze | wheel |
| ụzịịba | tongue |
| ụzụgwa | true; truth |
| ụ̀ribà | round |