Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| Bwọ m ọ• | Oh my God |
| Nhambatọ• | nkamoor, nkamụọ, nkamuo |
| Nhambatọ• | Nkamụọ language; guards |
| Wefíba• | A dialect of Nkamuo, vuefiba, vụẹfíba A writing script for the vụẹfíba |
| achọọ• | annoyance |
| afúwú• | bark |
| afẹ́• | tree |
| agbalatọ• | eye |
| agbalatọ watọ!• | common sense (slang/colloq) |
| ahífì• | fire |
| amba• | leaf |
| anyuhẹ́• | snake |
| asho• | moon |
| awi• | child |
| azihọ̀• | animal |
| azoroju• | hello; greeting |
| ba• | but |
| baajaja• | hunt |
| baba• | smooth |
| babịbe• | 2, two |
| babịbechere• | 20, twenty |
| babịbedawé• | 200, two hundred |
| babịberé• | twelve, 12 |
| babịbewọ• | sex, reproduce, mate |
| baha• | tie |
| bahahọ• | because |
| banbu• | belly |
| bazọ• | nation, country, civilisation |
| bubịfọ• | five |
| bujọzọ• | father |
| bushẹwọ• | when |
| bwịbọbọ• | join in marriage; marry |
| bwọ• | God, deity |
| bwụhnya• | return; back to former |
| bàhó• | few |
| bé• | hand |
| bé• | see |
| bé agbalatọ• | to see clearly, to use common sense colloq |
| bémo• | to be equal; fair |
| bìyò• | digits, figures |
| bó• | cloud |
| bẹ• | 4, four |
| bẹbụ• | woman |
| bẹbụala• | wife |
| bẹchere• | 40, forty |
| bẹdawé• | 400, four hundred |
| bẹhẹ• | sky |
| bẹhọ• | man |
| bẹhọala• | husband |
| bẹré• | fourteen, 14 |
| bẹwi• | tell, snitch |
| bẹ́hnyụ́• | dig |
| bẹ́lẹ́hì• | wet |
| bị• | 6, six |
| bị• | not |
| bịba• | you (singular) |
| bịbazù• | friend |
| bịbúzú• | build |
| bịbúzú ebọ• | sew |
| bịbịchọ• | pull |
| bịbọ• | night |
| bịbụzụ• | head |
| bịchere• | 60, sixty |
| bịdawé• | 600, six hundred |
| bịré• | sixteen, 16 |
| bịwewa• | tail |
| bịzo• | six |
| bọ• | with |
| bọ• | 7, seven |
| bọ• | fog |
| bọbazọ• | daughter; female child |
| bọbọ àhèdẹ́• | village |
| bọbọshaabi• | chapter |
| bọchere• | 70, seventy |
| bọdawé• | 700, seven hundred |
| bọgbízụ• | verb |
| bọjọ• | done, happened, did |
| bọré• | seventeen, 17 |
| bọzọ• | son; male child |
| bọ̀• | do; make happen |
| bọ́bọ́• | small |
| bọ́zọ́• | seven |
| bụ• | 5, five |
| bụbanzọ• | water |
| bụchere• | 50, fifty |
| bụdawé• | 500, five hundred |
| bụhnyọzịe• | join, come |
| bụré• | fifteen, 15 |
| bụrụ• | at |
| chamba• | know |
| chambabị | unknown |
| chawuwọnzafọ• | suck |
| chéé chéé• | multiply |
| chịbọnzze• | later |
| chịfọ• | if |
| chịgbaebè• | kill |
| chọ• | earth |
| chọ achọọ• | to annoy, annoying |
| chọhebịbalagbọnzọ• | holy; angelic |
| chọọ chọọ• | fuck off |
| dawé• | 100, hundred, one hundred |
| delazo• | flow |
| docho• | would |
| dé• | subtract |
| dí• | stone |
| díshi• | come |
| díshẹ̀mụụ• | liver |
| dẹmẹẹjọ• | road |
| e• | to |
| ebọ• | cloth |
| ehụzụbwa• | actually; honestly; truthfully |
| fa• | have; own; possess |
| faafaa• | no |
| faahọ́ ẹ́faahọ́• | to fear |
| faaza ufaaza• | to cry |
| fi• | thousand, 1000, one thousand |
| funyi• | fish |
| fà• | grow |
| fà shụfú• | to grow old |
| fà ányááhí• | to be funny, funny |
| fá nbábịbọ́• | get dark; grow dark; have no lit vision due to absence of light, especially an environment |
| fáhọ́zá• | white |
| fé òfé• | to be good in personality |
| fìbọbị• | give |
| fìbọbị ílè• | to help, help |
| fìbọbị ịbwezi• | 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 |
| fịamb̀ ịhèdú• | to look weird, to look ugly, weird, ugly |
| fịnbẹ• | 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 |
| gbaa• | 8, eight |
| gbaachere• | 80, eighty |
| gbaadawé• | 800, eight hundred |
| gbaaré• | eighteen, 18 |
| gbagbahọ• | spit |
| gbamb̀• | gunshot, pow, baow, bow |
| gbambọgbẹfí• | horn |
| gbe ọgbe• | to be blue in colour |
| gbáị́• | die |
| gbèhọ• | big |
| gbéyíìṅ• | dead |
| gbì• | be, is, specifically for inanimate objects, exist |
| gbì bẹ́lẹ́hì• | to be wet |
| gbì bọ́bọ́• | to be small |
| gbì gbéyíìṅ• | to be dead |
| gbì hnyanzọ• | to be heavy |
| gbì hnyázílá• | to be dirty |
| gbì hèdú• | to be a weird person, to be an ugly person |
| gbì nbábịbọ́• | to be dark |
| gbì nbụrụzị • | to copy, copy |
| gbì nyazị• | to be disgusting |
| gbì nzgbàhị́ọ̀• | to be black (non-human) |
| gbì shụfú• | to be old |
| gbì yàyó• | to be wide |
| gbì òfé• | to be good in quality or looks |
| gbì ṅudí• | to be thick |
| gbì ẹbọ• | to be correct |
| gbìbọ• | late |
| gbíza• | fuck,( as an insult) |
| gbóba• | all |
| gbẹmíì• | remain; to be left over |
| gbọ• | he |
| gbọbazọ• | mother |
| gbọnyọ• | nose |
| gbọnzọ• | heart |
| gbọṅọ• | neck |
| gbọọhnyọ• | monk, missionary |
| gbọọm̀zí-yabụ• | yaguian, yaguist |
| gbụwàá• | trumpet, horn |
| ha• | self |
| halichọ• | push |
| hawa• | we, us, our |
| haịbaza• | throw |
| haụwọ• | squeeze |
| hebịbala• | love |
| hihọshọ́• | short |
| hinzọbịbi• | day |
| hinzọbịbizọ̀• | daily |
| hnya• | people |
| hnyaha• | people rule, democracy |
| hnyahnyọ• | monks |
| hnyam̀zí-yabụ• | yaguists |
| hnyanzọ• | heavy |
| hnye• | add |
| hnyázílá• | dirty |
| hnyé• | hold |
| hnyọ• | market |
| hnyọnza• | river |
| hnyọ̀• | think |
| hnyọ̀ họọshị• | to assume |
| hnyọ̀ yizíduó• | to regret; to apologize |
| hnyọ́ áhnyọ́• | to be sharp |
| hàyebụ• | bone |
| hààzá• | whimsical, whimsy, whim, The feeling when you laugh so hard you cry |
| hààzá ahààzá• | to laugh so hard you cry |
| hàá• | union, united |
| hàá aáhá• | to unite, unification |
| hábẹ́• | lie |
| hábị́• | straight |
| hèdú• | weird, gross, ugly |
| héé• | what |
| héé?• | what? |
| héé?• | ? |
| hị• | hour |
| hịnzọ• | to be younger than |
| hị́bị́ ọ́hị́bị́• | to be red in clour |
| hị́líhẹ• | wind |
| họahazụ• | rub |
| hụ• | she |
| hụmbọ• | very; exaggerating the adjective |
| hụ̀bọ• | wipe |
| hụ̀wáhnyáhnyáhnyáhnyá• | Horn, trumpet, Sound of a trumpet, Toot, tada |
| hụ́• | be (who, what, whose something or someone is); is; am; are; art |
| hụ́ óha• | to live |
| iheje• | neighbourhood |
| ití• | 9, nine |
| itíchere• | 90, ninety |
| itídawé• | 900, nine hundred |
| itíré• | nineteen, 19 |
| izí• | nine |
| jinye• | key |
| jowu• | bird |
| jubụtụ• | right |
| jufọbịbi• | year |
| jé• | yellow |
| jịmọọba• | please |
| jọ́mẹ̀hnyá ọ́jọ́mẹ̀hnyá • | To write |
| jụmẹ́ọhà• | float |
| labi• | blow |
| labi ányáhọ• | breathe |
| lè• | swell |
| lè èlè• | to be swollen |
| lé• | divide |
| lẹbàshò• | to mean; show |
| lẹ́• | kneel; kneel down |
| lịahọ• | fall |
| m• | me, I |
| maanba• | North |
| matọ• | wait around something or someone in order to protect; guard |
| mbiíza• | fall to death |
| mrishọ• | swim |
| mrí émrí • | to be able, to choose, choose |
| mwọ• | my |
| mwọha• | myself, my soul |
| mífe• | cold |
| mífeha• | to freeze |
| míza• | path |
| m̀bàzà• | drop, trip and fall |
| m̀bụrịbụ• | prefer, favorite |
| m̀chọọ chọọ• | onomatopoeia for someone eating, nom nom, poor people (colloq.) |
| m̀m̀ẹẹmmẹẹ• | meh, middle class (colloq.) |
| m̀re• | ability |
| m̀re ịm̀re• | can |
| m̀zí-• | -ism |
| m̀zí-yabụ• | yaguism, religion of the Nkamuo people |
| mẹhnya• | Mẹkwa, Mekwa, the script for the majority of nkamuo speaking countries |
| mẹhị• | as; like |
| mẹ́báisi àmẹ́báisi• | to feel warm |
| mẹẹ• | four |
| mị• | I; me (only before a consonant) |
| mọhibọọ• | person |
| mụhị• | who |
| nbazatọ• | noisy, annoying |
| nbazu• | noise, sound |
| nbazu anbazu• | to make a sound, bark, to make noise |
| nbe• | hit |
| nbe áhnyọ́• | stab |
| nbeuhnyu• | city |
| nbuyu• | feel, (emotionally) |
| nbuyu osì• | to feel happiness, feel happy |
| nbábịbọ́• | darkness |
| nbémochí• | equally |
| nbóbewa• | nice |
| nbẹ́chị́• | thin |
| nyalọ• | where |
| nyalụ• | there |
| nyazị• | rotten, disgusting |
| nyazịgbọnzọ• | evil; evil soul/heart |
| nyefi• | they, them, their |
| nyezụbịbi• | left |
| nyinzè• | salt |
| nyàyà• | ash |
| nyábérá ányábérá• | to speak in a language |
| nyáyà• | dust |
| nyáyá• | sand |
| nyááhí ányááhí• | to laugh |
| nyịnzọ• | to be older than |
| nyọbọbọ• | dialect |
| nyọ̀• | music |
| nyọ́• | stand |
| nzaja• | dry |
| nzaya• | mud |
| nzbzonzzi• | law, rules |
| nzbzonzziha• | autonomy, self rule |
| nzbzọzẹ• | full |
| nzegbo• | 0, zero |
| nzegboshị• | now, right now, instantly |
| nzgbàhị́ọ̀• | black |
| nzgbụrụzị • | the act of copying, mock, fake, a rip off |
| nzuru• | that |
| nzze• | time |
| nzè• | in |
| nzẹbó• | zero, 0 |
| nzẹbóshị• | check 0ṣị |
| nzẹbọshụ• | how |
| nzọmí• | sleep |
| nzụbwédị̀ ụnzụbwédị̀• | to be hungry |
| nzụbwẹ̀bị ụnzụbwẹ̀bị• | to be thirsty |
| nzụnyọ• | musician |
| nzụsọwọ• | after |
| o• | though, tho, although, also |
| obịbojá• | flower |
| ohazì• | picture; image; view; art |
| ohẹmebo• | table |
| ohị• | new |
| osì• | happy, happiness |
| ra• | Or |
| ribà ụ̀ribà• | to be round in shape |
| ribịbishe• | before |
| ro• | on, onto, upon |
| ré• | +10, teen |
| rífíhí• | stupidity, ragebait, foolery, being a idiot |
| rífíhí é?• | are you stupid?, you're ragebaiting me, are you ragebaiting me? |
| rịbọ• | dog |
| rịlẹ• | forget |
| rọhoaha• | west |
| rọhụ• | boat |
| rọ̀• | this |
| rụ̀mrụ̀m• | louse |
| sasa• | thanks |
| shahafọnzu• | promiscuous person, bitch, whore, penis eater, prostitute |
| sho• | it |
| shohi• | smoke |
| shábífi• | other |
| sháà• | after, (wards); therefore or then (resulting from something else) |
| sháábí• | book |
| shéémọ• | swap |
| shéémọ ába• | trade |
| shì• | fast |
| shìá• | mouth |
| shị• | waste, to waste time, nonsense, rubbish, trash |
| shụ• | out |
| shụfú• | old |
| sinzó• | early |
| sábí• | crash; collide |
| sárí• | thanks |
| séhị́• | may; might; be likely to happen |
| sí ásí• | to be green |
| sụ azoroju• | goodbye; greeting |
| tọkị• | 3, three |
| tọkịchere• | 30, thirty |
| tọkịdawé• | 300, three hundred |
| tọkịré• | thirteen, 13 |
| ufaaza• | cry |
| uhéé• | breast |
| usízí• | the rich |
| wabuzị• | south |
| webụ ịwebụ• | to tell a lie |
| wgbaufa• | cook |
| wihèdẹ́• | hamlet; community |
| wo• | sit |
| wosi• | here |
| wosọụ• | ear |
| wu• | to fly; to levitate |
| wàárù• | stop, to stop, halt, pause |
| wáhà• | nail |
| wọbịba• | your, thy |
| wọbịbaha• | yourself, your soul |
| wọfa• | get |
| wọra• | of; which; (pronoun) |
| wọrabubịfọ• | fifth |
| wọrabịzo• | sixth |
| wọrabọ́zọ́• | seventh |
| wọraizí• | ninth |
| wọrambẹẹ• | fourth |
| wọrayàbú• | first |
| wọrazáhì• | third |
| wọraáhe• | second |
| wọraáré• | tenth |
| wọ́• | auxiliary part of a future verb; will(future) |
| wọṅị• | fuck, sexual |
| wụzò• | tough |
| wụ́• | wash |
| wụ́ ọnbọọ• | shower; bath; to wash your body |
| yabatọ• | God bless, goodbye, thank you |
| yabọ• | to scratch |
| yabụ• | 1, one |
| yabụré• | eleven, 11 |
| yefọnzu• | eat |
| yefọṅunzu• | bite |
| yizíduó• | sorry |
| yowu• | fly |
| yuche• | far |
| yàbú• | one |
| yàyó• | wide |
| yẹ ọyẹ• | use |
| yọbị• | week; 7 days |
| yụfọbunzu• | 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 |
| zambò• | play |
| ze• | is; for time |
| zenyụmụ• | rope |
| zigbọgbizụ• | loanword |
| ziwe• | turn |
| zunzu• | to vomit |
| záhì• | three |
| zígbá• | take; recieve |
| zẹ• | bad |
| zẹẹ• | the |
| zẹọ• | sing |
| zẹụ• | say, talk, chat |
| zịàshe• | care, to care |
| zọ• | count |
| zọgba• | split |
| zọ̀fà• | burn |
| zọ́• | and |
| zụ̀ọ́hie• | generate, make, create |
| Òfébịbọ• | Good Night |
| àbịhọ• | sacred, holy, hallowed |
| àbọ̀• | ice |
| àgbá• | back |
| àhèdẹ́• | town |
| àmẹ́báisi• | warm |
| àzó• | king |
| àzóbazọ• | kingdom |
| àzóbazọhàá• | United Kingdom |
| ába• | goods |
| ábì• | rain |
| ábọ́• | snow |
| ágbà• | money |
| áhe• | two |
| áhnyọ́• | sharp |
| ámashahaọjịị• | penis |
| ányábérá• | language |
| ányáhọ• | breath |
| ányááhí• | laugh |
| áré• | ten |
| ásí• | green |
| ásọ́shị́fọ̀• | seed |
| áyụ• | feather |
| èbị́azù• | worm |
| èlọ́• | star |
| égbó• | okay |
| émrí• | capability |
| íbe• | number, a number |
| ídẹbá• | many |
| ídị̀• | grass |
| íhà• | hot |
| ílè• | aid, help |
| ílèsháábí• | guide, guide book, map, (colloq.) |
| ízé• | why |
| òfé• | good |
| òfì• | mountain |
| òfìbi• | foot |
| óha• | life |
| úyé• | forest |
| úyó• | long |
| ṅudí• | thick |
| ṅusi• | cut |
| ṅẹhì• | minute |
| ṅị• | hear, taste, feel, touch, smell, sense something with four of the five sense organs |
| ṅị baba• | feel smooth; be smooth |
| ṅị bẹ́lẹ́hì• | to feel wet |
| ṅị gbọnyọ• | smell |
| ṅị mífe• | to feel cold |
| ṅị shìá• | taste |
| ṅị wosọụ• | hear |
| ṅị íhà• | to feel hot |
| ṅị ọzunzu• | nausea; cause a feeling to vomit |
| ṅị ụzịịba• | to taste flavour |
| ṅịshi• | heaven |
| ṅọ• | for |
| ṅọhnyọ ọ́ṅọhnyọ• | to fight |
| ṅọhnyọ ụbohnyụ• | to fight a war |
| ṅọshose• | hair |
| ẹbọ• | correct |
| ẹbọ• | wait, to wait |
| ẹbọwàárù• | Wait and think, think before you speak, lit. wait and stop |
| ẹzụ̀• | loud |
| ẹ́bịbá• | tooth |
| ẹ́faahọ́• | fear |
| ẹ́fị• | skin |
| ẹ́hí• | thing |
| ẹ́ju• | you (plural) |
| ẹ́zíhọ́• | non-human body |
| ẹụugbọ• | pronoun |
| ịbwezi• | a memory, family home, nostalgia |
| ịbwezimb• | let me, (colloq/slang) |
| ịhnyezi• | equator, middle of the Kozam world |
| ịja• | arm |
| ịjị• | leg |
| ịwebụ• | a false information; lie |
| ịzabịwe• | vagina |
| ị́hnyá• | script, type of writing, a writing system Writing system |
| ọ!• | ! |
| ọba• | eight |
| ọbayè• | narrow |
| ọbị• | sea |
| ọbịbatọ | obibato, seaside |
| ọbị̀• | lake |
| ọbọ• | what (as an adverb) |
| ọchibwa• | amen |
| ọfabụ• | dull |
| ọfù• | egg |
| ọfịamb̀• | to look like something, seem, look like, appearance |
| ọgbe• | blue |
| ọha• | yes |
| ọhnyadịnzụ• | knee |
| ọjà• | peace |
| ọnbọọ• | body |
| ọnzubụ• | east |
| ọyabọ• | scratch |
| ọzunzu• | vomit |
| ọ̀fọ̀• | root |
| ọ̀mọ̀ajoha• | planet |
| ọ́fá• | blood |
| ọ́fá• | sun |
| ọ́hị́bị́• | red |
| ọ́jọ́mẹ̀hnyá• | Writing |
| ọ́ṅọhnyọ• | fight |
| ọṅliṅ• | online |
| ụbayè ọbayè• | to be narrow |
| ụbọhnyụ• | war |
| ụgbízụ• | word |
| ụnzụbwédị̀• | hunger |
| ụnzụbwẹ̀bị• | thirst |
| ụzịịba• | tongue |
| ụzụbwa• | true; truth |
| ụ̀ribà• | round |