Lexicon and word definitions
| Lemma | Gloss |
|---|---|
| fgou ogoujtwuorojgou• | goodbye; greeting |
| fogou• | out |
| vogou òvogou• | to be good in personality |
| ze oújogougoue• | to be green |
| e• | in |
| ee• | thing |
| efogouŕogoutwuù• | worm |
| egogoulythogou• | love |
| egou• | cloth |
| egoújogougou• | tooth |
| egoújogougouizi ogouregoújogougouizi• | to feel warm |
| ejgou• | you (plural) |
| ejogour̀• | grass |
| ejúndévoújogougou• | many |
| elythó• | star |
| eogour• | hot |
| eogoutwuogougwogou• | actually; honestly; truthfully |
| eó• | correct |
| etwueó• | non-human body |
| etwuogou• | path |
| etwuogou• | why |
| eve• | cold |
| eveogou• | to freeze |
| evogour• | skin |
| evoújogouújogoú• | fear |
| felytheì• | wet |
| fewogoú• | dig |
| fgougogourvo• | five |
| fgoujotwuo• | father |
| fo• | with |
| fofo ogoureje• | village |
| fogogoutwuo• | daughter; female chud |
| fogourtwuo• | six |
| fogouvogou• | smooth |
| fogouvú• | old |
| fogouwgou• | belly |
| foi• | smoke |
| fola• | it |
| fotwuo• | son; male child |
| foújogou• | to be equal; fair |
| foújogou• | swap |
| foújogou oújogougougogou• | trade |
| foújogougou• | tie |
| foújogougougevi• | other |
| foújogougoujogoujogou• | hunt |
| foújogouze• | equally |
| foújogouújogougour• | after(wards); therefore or then (resulting from something else) |
| fófó• | small |
| fótwuó• | seven |
| fì• | fast |
| fìoújogougou• | mouth |
| fúndéo• | man |
| fúndéohgoulythogou• | husband |
| fúndéúndé• | sky |
| gfogogoutwuo• | mother |
| gfúndéeì• | remain; to be left over |
| ggoufúndéwo• | when |
| go• | night |
| gogou• | hand |
| gogou• | you (singular) |
| gogoufoúja• | water |
| gogour• | not |
| gogourzzo• | pull |
| gogoutwuogou• | head |
| gogoutwuù• | friend |
| gougouvogouye• | narrow |
| gourgou• | that |
| gouvogouye gougouvogouye• | to be narrow |
| gouvoújogougoujtwuogou• | cry |
| gouúndéfogou ogourgouúndéfogou• | to tell a lie |
| goújogouújogou• | because |
| gwogourfogougo• | join in marriage; marry |
| gwogouwogou• | return; back to former |
| gútwuú• | build |
| gútwuú egou• | sew |
| ieje• | neighbourhood |
| iofó• | short |
| iogougi• | day |
| itwue• | nine |
| je• | stone |
| jefeeroújogougou• | liver |
| jefi• | come |
| jelythogoujtwuo• | flow |
| jgouggoujtwugou• | right |
| jgouvogougi• | year |
| jogou• | yellow |
| jogoueohgour• | float |
| jogourohfogou• | please |
| jowgou• | bird |
| júndéúndéúndéjo• | road |
| lythe• | kneel; kneel down |
| lythe• | swell |
| lythe elythe• | to be swollen |
| lythogouroújogou• | fall |
| lythogouvi• | blow |
| lythogouvi oújogougouyoújogouújogou• | breathe |
| lythúndéfogourfò• | to mean; show |
| o• | me (only before a consonant) |
| oe• | sleep |
| ofo• | what |
| ogogou• | eight |
| ogojoújogougou• | flower |
| ogou• | very; exaggerating the adjective |
| ogou• | she |
| ogou• | people |
| ogoue• | capability |
| ogouevì• | fire |
| ogoufogou• | see |
| ogouge• | sea |
| ogougfetwuogou• | word |
| ogouggou• | east |
| ogougweerfogour oújagougweerfogour• | to be thirsty |
| ogougwogoujogour̀ oújagougwogoujogour̀• | to be hungry |
| ogougì• | lake |
| ogoujogou• | dry |
| ogoujtwuorojgou• | hello; greeting |
| ogoulythizzo• | push |
| ogouo• | moon |
| ogouowo• | after |
| ogour• | hour |
| ogouregoújogougouizi• | warm |
| ogoureje• | town |
| ogourgouúndéfogou• | a false information; lie |
| ogourgò• | ice |
| ogourjogou• | arm |
| ogourjogour• | leg |
| ogouro• | to be younger than |
| ogourogourtwuoújogougou• | 1. The feeling when you laugh so hard you cry |
| ogourogourtwuoújogougou oújogougourogourtwuoújogougou• | to laugh so hard you cry |
| ogourtwuogoufogouúndé• | vagina |
| ogourvoújogougou• | back |
| ogouryegogou• | bone |
| ogouŕgogouŕ óogouŕgogouŕ• | to be red in clour |
| ogouŕlytheúndé• | wind |
| ogoutwuiò• | animal |
| ogoutwuogougwogou• | true; truth |
| ogoutwuogourogourfogou• | tongue |
| ogouve• | tree |
| ogouvowogou• | war |
| ogouvó• | okay |
| ogouvúwú• | bark |
| ogouwi• | child |
| ogouwogou• | we |
| ogouygoue• | snake |
| ogouyogou• | mud |
| ogoùfo• | wipe |
| ogoùrifogour• | round |
| ogoú• | be (who, what, whose something or someone is); is; am; are |
| ogoú óogou• | to live |
| ohgou• | yes |
| ohgou• | river |
| ohgour• | new |
| ohújogougoutwuogou• | rub |
| oivoh• | person |
| otwugougou• | vomit |
| otwuúndé• | full |
| ove• | blue |
| ovogoufogou• | dull |
| ovù• | egg |
| owogoujogourogou• | knee |
| owoh• | body |
| oyogoufo• | scratch |
| oújagougweerfogour• | thirst |
| oújagougwogoujogour̀• | hunger |
| oújogou• | wait around something or someone in order to protect; guard |
| oújogougou• | leaf |
| oújogougoue• | green |
| oújogougoue• | two |
| oújogougoufogouŕ• | straight |
| oújogougougogou• | goods |
| oújogougougó• | snow |
| oújogougougì• | rain |
| oújogougouófogouŕvò• | seed |
| oújogougour• | who |
| oújogougourfogoutwuogou• | throw |
| oújogougourogou• | ten |
| oújogougouve• | lie |
| oújogougouvogour• | money |
| oújogougouwo• | squeeze |
| oújogougouwogou• | North |
| oújogougouwó• | sharp |
| oújogougouyogou• | feather |
| oújogougouyoújogougoufogouroújogougou• | language |
| oújogougouyoújogouújogou• | breath |
| oújogougouyoújogouújogouújogougoue• | laugh |
| oújogouújogou• | 1. name of the Nkamụọ language 2. guards |
| oújogouújogougoufoújogouújogoujogourogour• | penis |
| ò• | think |
| ò ohfogour• | to assume |
| ò yitwuejgouó• | to regret; to apologize |
| òòogoujohgou• | planet |
| òvò• | root |
| óogouŕgogouŕ• | red |
| óvoújogougou• | blood |
| óvoújogougou• | sun |
| óṅowo• | fight |
| rifo• | swim |
| rifogour ogoùrifogour• | to be round in shape |
| rigife• | before |
| rogourlythúndé• | forget |
| rogourvo• | dog |
| rogoùrogoù• | louse |
| rohgou• | boat |
| rohoújogougou• | west |
| rò• | this |
| twuevoújogougou• | take; recieve |
| twueyoújogougou• | rope |
| twugougou• | to vomit |
| twuivogougfitwuogou• | loanword |
| twuiwe• | turn |
| twuo• | count |
| twuo• | and |
| twuogou• | usually attached to a verb or negator '-gị' to mean 'no longer' 'no more' 'any more' or 'not' to emphasize the first negator |
| twuogouò• | play |
| twuovogou• | split |
| twuoújogougouì• | three |
| twuòvogour• | burn |
| twuúndé• | bad |
| twuúndégou• | say |
| twuúndéo• | sing |
| ve• | walk |
| ve fì• | run |
| ve ove• | to be blue in colour |
| veo• | big |
| vgouyi• | fish |
| vo• | fog |
| vo• | he |
| vogou• | have; own; possess |
| vogoulythoújogou• | eye |
| vogour• | grow |
| vogour fogouvú• | to grow old |
| vogour oújogougouyoújogouújogouújogougoue• | to be funny |
| vogourogou• | at |
| vogourtwueyo• | name |
| vogourwúndé• | pepper, spice, flavour |
| vogouró• | few |
| vogouvoújogou• | spit |
| vogouyeì• | dead |
| vogouúndéwogou• | tail |
| voh• | heart |
| votwuo• | near |
| voyo• | nose |
| voújogougou woújogougougó• | get dark; grow dark; have no lit vision due to absence of light, especially an environment |
| voújogougoujtwuogou gouvoújogougoujtwuogou• | to cry |
| voújogouvúndéve• | horn |
| voújogouújogougouŕ• | die |
| voújogouújogoú evoújogouújogoú• | to fear |
| voújogouújogoútwuoújogougou• | white |
| vò• | do; make happen |
| vó• | take or follow a path or pattern or manner; from; through |
| vóve• | from; through, based on; judging from |
| voṅo• | neck |
| vìvofogour• | give |
| vó• | cloud |
| vófogou• | all |
| vúndévogou• | woman |
| vúndévoújogougoulythogou• | wife |
| we• | hold |
| we• | hit |
| we oújogougouwó• | stab |
| wegouwgou• | city |
| wetwugouvogou• | cook |
| wezzogouŕ• | thin |
| wgou• | to fly; to levitate |
| wieje• | hamlet; community |
| wo• | sit |
| wogourogouŕò• | black |
| wogoutwuò• | tough |
| wogouvgoutwuogour• | south |
| wogoú• | wash |
| wogoú owoh• | shower; bath; to wash your body |
| worogou• | of; which; one (pronoun) |
| worogoufogourtwuo• | sixth |
| worogoufótwuó• | seventh |
| worogouitwue• | ninth |
| worogoutwuoújogougouì• | third |
| worogouvgougogourvo• | fifth |
| worogouyogourgú• | first |
| worogouúndéúndé• | fourth |
| woroújogouújogougoue• | second |
| woroújogouújogougourogou• | tenth |
| wozi• | here |
| wozogou• | ear |
| woúja• | heavy |
| woújogougougó• | darkness |
| woújogougoutwuelythoújogougou• | dirty |
| woújogouújogougour• | nail |
| wó• | auxiliary part of a future verb; will(future) |
| wó oújogougouwó• | to be sharp |
| wóvewogou• | nice |
| yetwuogougi• | left |
| yevi• | they |
| yevogou• | eat |
| yevoṅgougou• | bite |
| ygouze• | far |
| yie• | salt |
| yitwuejgouó• | sorry |
| yo• | market |
| yogogour• | week; 7 days |
| yogoufo• | to scratch |
| yogoulytho• | where |
| yogoulythogou• | there |
| yogourgú• | one |
| yogouro• | to be older than |
| yogouryogour• | ash |
| yogouryó• | wide |
| yogoutwuogour• | rotten |
| yogoutwuogourvoh• | evil; evil soul/heart |
| yogouvovgougou• | drink |
| yowgou• | fly |
| yoújogougoufogouroújogougou oújogougouyoújogougoufogouroújogougou• | to speak in a language |
| yoújogougouyogour• | dust |
| yoújogougouyoújogougou• | sand |
| yoújogouújogouújogougoue oújogougouyoújogouújogouújogougoue• | to laugh |
| yó• | stand |
| yúndé oyúndé• | use |
| ze ogoue• | to be able |
| zogouogou• | thanks |
| zoújogougoufe• | crash; collide |
| zoújogougouŕ• | may; might; be likely to happen |
| zzo• | earth |
| zzoegogoulythogouvoh• | holy; angelic |
| zzogouretwuege• | kill |
| zzogourvo• | if |
| zzogouwgouwohgouvo• | suck |
| zzoújogougou• | know |
| zzì• | be; specifically for inanimate objects |
| zzì eó• | to be correct |
| zzì felytheì• | to be wet |
| zzì fogouvú• | to be old |
| zzì fófó• | to be small |
| zzì vogouyeì• | to be dead |
| zzì wogourogouŕò• | to be black (non-human) |
| zzì woúja• | to be heavy |
| zzì woújogougougó• | to be dark |
| zzì woújogougoutwuelythoújogougou• | to be dirty |
| zzì yogouryó• | to be wide |
| zzì òvogou• | to be good in quality or looks |
| zzì ṅgouje• | to be thick |
| òvogou• | good |
| òvì• | mountain |
| òvìvi• | foot |
| óogou• | life |
| újogougou• | breast |
| úndégougouvo• | pronoun |
| úndéogour• | as; like |
| úndévofogou• | how |
| úndéúndé• | four |
| úyogou• | forest |
| úyó• | long |
| ṅgoui• | cut |
| ṅgouje• | thick |
| ṅo• | for |
| ṅofoze• | hair |
| ṅogour• | hear; taste; feel (skin); smell; sense something with four of the five sense organs |
| ṅogour eogour• | to feel hot |
| ṅogour eve• | to feel cold |
| ṅogour felytheì• | to feel wet |
| ṅogour fogouvogou• | feel smooth; be smooth |
| ṅogour fìoújogougou• | taste |
| ṅogour ogoutwuogourogourfogou• | to taste flavour |
| ṅogour otwugougou• | nausea; cause a feeling to vomit |
| ṅogour voyo• | smell |
| ṅogour wozogou• | hear |
| ṅowo ogouvowogou• | to fight a war |
| ṅowo óṅowo• | to fight |
| ṅúndéì• | minute |