ti-
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
strike; hit; beat
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O tinyere ego n'akpa ya.
— He put money in his bag.
Tinye nnu n'ofe.
— Put salt in the soup.
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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.
- 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)