lì
Extensional suffixNdebe script
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Meanings
reduce to small units; splinter; crush (something softer or more fragile than -gwò)
Extensional suffix
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Nne m liri ji ahụ maka nwa ọhụrụ.
— My mother crushed that yam for the baby.
Lìa ya nke ọma tupu i nye nwa ahụ.
— Crush it well before you give it to the baby.
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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.
- lieat; acquire; absorb
- lịclimb; creep; for one's own benefit; to oneself; about; around (often combined with -gha 1.B)
- lụwork; construct; make; defile; desecrate; be faulty, defective; see -la 2.
- òlione who eats (-li 1. eat)
- ta amōosube a witch; practise witchcraft; be a witch; practise witchcraft (compare -li amōosu and -ta mbili)