isi
Noun6 varieties
Ndebe script
Voice recording
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Meanings
head
Nounhead; chief; sense; meaning; issue
Nounbasic
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Achala, Afiikpo, Isuama, Mkpọọ, Nkanụ, Owere
- isi Achala — same spelling as the Izugbe
- ishi Achala
- isi Afiikpo — same spelling as the Izugbe
- ishi Isuama
- itsi Mkpọọ
- ishi Nkanụ
- ishi Owere
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ife o kwùlù enwērọ isi
— What he said makes no sense
Achọrọ m ibekapụ isi ji a.
— I want to cut off the head of this yam.
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Same spelling, different tones
These entries fold to the same letters once tone is removed, so a tone-blind search returns all of them.
- ísìsmell
- isìscent; smell; scent; smell; aroma
- ìsìblindness; folly
- èkpète(= isi egō) unit of cowrie counting system, consisting of six single cowries (ego) mkpụlū
- chị òkwèdivine with beads, nuts; pay divine homage to òkwè; hence village name (Isi òkwè); divine, with beads, nuts
- kpocha isicut hair (of head) very low (literally gather and remove); be bald Nwoke afù kpòchàlù isi That man is bald
- kpàchasị isibarb hair of head (less common than -kpàcha isi)