tụcha
Active verbNdebe script
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Meanings
scrape out canoe with ǹkò
Active verbnurse, foster, bring up very sickly, weak, miserably helpless child or animal ("take out disease, weakness") ọgè nne yā nwūsịlị It is mother who is fostering the child of Ibe who was brought down from Northern Nigeria after his mother died
Active verb
Dialect & variants
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Examples
Ọ bù nnē nà-àtụcha nnwa Ìbè e sì Ugwu Awụsa kpọnata ọgè nne yā nwūsịlị
— It is mother who is fostering the child of Ibe who was brought down from Northern Nigeria after his mother died
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