ti
Active verb6 varieties
Ndebe script
Voice recording
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Meanings
beat; hit; strike
Active verb
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Ajalị, Ezaa, Izii, Mkpọọ, Nkanụ, Obosi
- kụ Ajalị
- chi Ezaa
- kụ Izii
- ti Mkpọọ — same spelling as the Izugbe
- chi Nkanụ
- ti Obosi — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O tiri nwa ahụ aka n'isi.
— She hit the child on the head.
Tie bọl ahụ n'ike.
— Strike the ball hard.
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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.
- tịstretch; make long
- 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)