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ŋụ ala

Active verb

Meanings

  1. suck breast (of infant)

    Active verb

Dialect & variants

No other variants have been documented for this word.

Examples

Anyanwụ rie asaa kwụrụ, ala ejiri edeuli kwado ya

— If the sun goes through seven cycles and holds, the earth will support it with uli designs.

Ijiji na-enweghi onye ndumodu na-eso ozu ala n’inyi

— A fly with no one to advise it follows a corpse to the grave.

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