ti
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
beat; hit; strike
Active verbshout; yell; utter cry; howl
Active verbshine (of moon)
Active verbbuild; establish
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Ọnwa nà-èti n’anyàsị à
— The moon is shining this night
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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.
- tìcrack (nuts)
- tịstretch
- ǹtibeater (shortened form of ǹtiti) (-ti 1. beat)
- òtiknocker; beater (-ti 1. beat)
- bì ọmàgreet (by embracing (compare -ti ọmà); greet (by embracing)
- òtimkpọkọold, worn vehicle, etc.; beat-up object (-ti kpọkọ beat noisily)
- ti mkpùkpòpraise someone and remind him of what his forefathers did, sometimes to encourage him to undertake new enterprises; chant praise-poetry; in sorrow, praise the dead in mourning, usually by someone close to the deceased; raise the alarm, as death (compare -ti mkpu)