ùkwù
NounNsa
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Meanings
bundle
Noun(also ùkwù egō) unit in cowrie counting system, consisting of ten èkpète (of six cowries each), thus sixty cowries
Noun
Dialect & variants
Dialect: Nsa
- ùkwù Nsa — same spelling as the Izugbe
No other variants have been documented for this word.
Examples
O bu ùkwù ọka n'isi.
— He carried a bundle of corn on his head.
Gbakọta akwụkwọ ndị ahụ n'otu ùkwù.
— Gather those papers into one bundle.
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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.
- ukwularge; big; large; big; great; master
- ụkwụfoot; leg; foot; leg; footstep; leg
- ukwùwaist; loins; stump (of tree); base; waist; loins; the base of an object
- kpereport; judge O kpèlì m He reported me Agà m èkpe giCn’aka nnà gị ukwu I shall report you to your master; pray; beg Kà ànyị kpeelu Chine kè Let us pray (unto God) O tègo m jì èkpelu yā kà ọ rapụ m I have been begging him for a long time to leave me alone; smearing
- Chukwuthe supreme god; big God; great God; God (chi 1. + ukwu). In Nri belief, Chukwu has four major manifestations Anyanwū, the sun, which represents Chukwu as everywhere present, all-powerful, and the source of knowledge; Agbàlà, manifested in the fertility of the earth and its creatures; Chi, the ability of living beings to procreate; Òkìkè, the never-ending process of creation (Onwuejeogwu 1974:82)
- ǹnekwusize; bigness; importance; (nnē + ukwu)