tì
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
crack (nuts)
Active verb
Dialect & variants
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
Nne m na-ati mkpụrụ aki n'ezi.
— My mother is cracking palm kernels outside.
Onye zụtara nkume a iji tìe aki?
— Who bought this stone to crack nuts?
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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.
- tibeat; hit; strike; shout; yell; utter cry; howl; shine (of moon)
- 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)