olu
10 varieties
Ndebe script
Voice recording
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Meanings
neck
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Abịrịba, Afiikpo, Ezaa, Izii, Mkpọọ, Ngwa, Nkanụ, Nsa, Obosi, Ọnịcha
- olu ebụ̀ Abịrịba
- olu Afiikpo — same spelling as the Izugbe
- olu okwū Afiikpo
- olu Ezaa — same spelling as the Izugbe
- olu Izii — same spelling as the Izugbe
- onu Mkpọọ
- ologha Ngwa
- onu okwū Nkanụ
- onu Nsa
- onu Obosi
- onu Ọnịcha
- onu okwū Ọnịcha
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Olu ya na-egbu mgbu mgbe ọ na-ehi ụra.
— His neck hurts when he is sleeping.
Olu gị ọ na-egbu mgbu n'ụtụtụ a?
— Does your neck hurt this morning?
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Same spelling, different tones
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- Olu"people that live by the water", term used to denote those who live by the bank of the River Niger
- òluused in
- ọlụwork; task; something difficult, tiring, tiresome (from -lụ 1. work); fault; weakness (of behaviour in human beings) (from -lụ 2. defile); limb of humans or leg of animals, including hip
- ofe ÌgbòIgbo soup; type of soup; in a more restricted sense, the upland people to the east of the Niger (also ndị Ìgbò), contrasted with Olu (also ndị Olū), the riverain Igbo. The people of Onitsha itself do not classify themselves with either Ìgbò or Olu (Henderson 1972 40 - 41, 89 noun); palm oil (= mmanụ akwū)